Lititz Record Express

              74th Year Established April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, June 1, 1950 5 cents a copy ; $2 per yr. by mail No. 7
Borough May
Start To
Build Streets
Dr. Horne And Rohrer
Take Sand Against
Former Policy
That the borough will alter j
its present street-building policy i
which has resulted in no new j
streets being built here for the
past year or so, was strongly
indicated by members of coun­cil
this week.
“I don’t think a town can
grow properly if you make
people pay for building streets
o r any portion of it,” Dr. Byron
K. Horne asserted a fte r Robert
Haines and Harry Wagaman,
both residents of East Second i
Avenue, had presented a re ­quest
for a street to Locust
Street.
President of Council Menno
Rohrer backed up this declar­ation
of policy change with the
statement th a t ‘‘leaving homes
out in the mud and along cin­der
paths is not the way for a
community to develop.”
Council also pointed out th a t
while few streets will be built,
inasmuch as most streets of the
borough will be torn up for
sewers next summer, th a t East
Second Avenue is one block
which will not receive sewers
due to the existing grades.
“There is need of many
streets but this is the only one
we can build this year and be
sure it won’t be torn up next
y e a r,” Mr. Rohrer explained.
Councilman Christ Nissley ob­jected,
however, on the ground
th a t council recently turned
down a request for an alley and
maintained th a t this should
come first. m
The matter w ill' be further
discussed a t a special meeting
to be held this Friday night.
P.P.&L. Will
Reduce Water
Heating Rate
Delivers Baccalaureate St. Luke’s Church To Observe
Fortieth Anniversary With
Series of Services Next Week
Miss Virginia Ranck
Chosen By Students
As Queen of Candles
Virginia Ranek, a member
of the senior class, was elected
Queen of the Candles for the
annual Pageant given on Ju ly
fourth in the Springs P ark . The
person who receives the highest
number of votes taken in the
senior high schol becomes
queen and the next in number
will serve in the court. The
court includes Dianne Zaiss,
St. Luke’s Evangelical and
Reformed church will observe
the fortieth anniversary of the
Church building by holding a
series of services beginning this
Sunday and continuing during
the week, they will be climaxed
the following Sunday by a re ­dedication
of the newly reno­vated
sanctuary.
Confirmation, Reception of
members and Holy Communion
will be observed on Ju n e 4th at
10:30 A.M.
The Rev. William Arnold, a
student-pastor who served the
Boro Raises
$2,334 In
Hosp. Drive
Local Area Donates Total
of $6,444 or 69 per-cent
Of Quota
IN MARINE BAND
Jean Hanna, Jan e Dussinger, | church 1946-47 will be the
Jan e t Reubman, Marianne Baer ¡speaker for Youth Night on
Jean Miller, Betty Blain, Vera ¡Tuesday evening
Ritter, Joanne Groff, Joyce J 7:30.
Gibbel, Shirley Miley, B e tty ! The Rev. Jacob Landis, a
Leed.
High School
Graduation
This Evening
Rev. Isenberg Urges Open-
Mindedness In Bacc­alaureate
Sermon
High School graduates who
will receive th e ir diplomas this
evening were urged to continue
to approach life’s problems
with an open mind, in the bac­calaureate
sermon presented
them Sunday evening by Rev.
Carl W. Isenberg in the Trinity
Evangelical Congregational
“You received your diplomas dent of council and Norman M.
because of open-mindedness, so » a d o ri burgess, which lay for- The Rev AUen s . Meck,
continue to be open minded. I gotten for a number of years, D D president of the Lancaster
Search the tru th wherever i t , specifica ly bans a limping g eminary will deliver the mess-
A total of $6,444.81 has been
contributed to the Lancaster
General Hospital’s charity
drive by the local area and is
within 31 per-cent of its goal,
John G. Hershey, area chair­man,
announced today.
Districts within the local
area and the amounts contri­buted
by each are as follows:
Lititz Borough, $2,334.27;
Manheim Borough, $773.47;
Clay and Elizabeth Townships,
June 6th at ¡$160.00; Penn Township $1,-
412.75; the upper section of
Boro Already
Bans Dumps
Rohrer Finds
All disputes regarding dumps
inside the borough will be
settled once and for all times,
Councilman Rohrer asserted
this week.
An ordinance passed in 1926
when H. J . Pierson was presi-former
Lititz man and a son
of the congregation will be pre­sent
for Warwick Charge night
on Wednesday, Ju n e 7th at
7:30.
Community Night will
observed on Thursday June
8th a t 7:30 and the Rev. George
B. Carvell, president of the
Ministerial Association of Lititz,
will deliver the message and
Rev. Jacob T. Dick, secretary
of the Ministerium, will lead
the devotions. Aaron Landis,
secretary of the Superinten­dents
Association will bring
greetings and Mrs. J. M. Leed,
will sing.
Council Asked To Ban
Trailers On Residential Sts;
Urged To Permit Sheep
Rohrer Asks Council
To Name Burgess
Borough Councilmen were
asked to be ready to appoint a
burgess a t th eir next meeting
to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Victor Wagner.
“I want you men to come
into the next meeting of coun­cil
with some real recommen­dations,”
President of Council
Menno* Rohrer declared at the
| close of this week’s session.
Donald Mohler, sop of Mr. , “And to stop present rumors I
and Mrs. John P. Mohler, this | w ant to add th a t I am not a
borough, who has been ap- candidate and th a t I would not
pointed the youngest member
of the Famous U. S. Marine
Rapho Township, $611.67; Band in Washington, D. C., with
Warwick Township, $1,152.15.
Solicitation in Lititz bor­ough
is approximately ninety
per-cent completed, local work­ers
reported. Penn Township
be continued to pile up an en­viable
record and despite the
size of this district, remained
far ahead of districts several
times as large.
Final reports in the drive
will be tu rn ed in Monday even­ing.
Persons not contacted and
persons wishing to add to their
contributions are asked to mail
checks or money orders to Mr.
Hershey, this borough.
Lititz electric consumers who
use electric consumers who use
electricity as the sole means of
heating water, will save on an
average of several dollars a
month, according to a rate re ­duction
filed with the P.U.C.
last week by the Pennsylvania
Power and Light Company. The
new ra te is effective Ju ly 25.
The new ra te applies after
the first 150 kilowatt-hours un­der
the company’s residential
ra te schedule. At this point the
electric water heating customer
receives a special one-cent per
kilowatt-hour rate for a speci­fied
number of kilowatt hours
depending upon the size of the
water h eater in service, after
which the regular residential
ra te is one-and-one-half cents
p er kiliwatt-hour. The new
schedule applies where water
heating service is provided
solely by the electricity, where
the heater is of the standard,
two-element, pressure type and
of a t least 30 gallons in
capacity, and where standard
installation requirements are
met by the customer.
Elmer Bamberger, P.P.&L.
manager here, stated th a t the
number of electric water heat­ers
in use here has more than
tripled in the last four years.
STATE READY TO BUILD
ROTHSVILLE ROAD
The state highway depart­m
en t is ready to ask for bids
on re-building of the Rothsville
road from here to Rothsville, it
was announced this week when
the borough was asked to ob-1
tain releases from property
damage.
As soon as the plans are ap­proved
by the borough and
other legal technicalities cover­ed,
bids will be asked. It is ex­pected
work will be under way
by mid-summer. The improve­ment
will extend as far inside
th e borough as the Revolution­a
ry War Burial Plot on East
Main Street.
may be found and to your sur­prise
you will find tru th has
been seeking you,” Rev. Isen­berg
declared.
“You reached this goal and
in the life ahead, those who
seek the tru th will be led to
Christ who is the way, th é
tru th and the life,” he con­cluded.
Rev. George B. Carvell
ipastor of the host church, was
lin charge of the service.
JAdge Guy K. Bard will de­liv
e r the Commencement Ad­dress
at the sixty-fourth an­n
u a l exercises to be held in the
High School Auditorium this
«evening at eight o’clock. Will­iam
Fasnacht, member of the
school board, will present the
diplomas and M. C. Demmy,
supervising principal, will an­nounce
th e awards.
Legion Awards
Glenn Good and Mary Ann
Wagner two eighth pupils were
given the American Legion
Awards on Thursday
inside 'the borough.
And w h a t’s more - th is '
ordinance is either going to be
enforced or removed from the
ordinance book, Councilman
Rohrer declared. “If the public
wants this ordinance followed
we will close every dump
located inside the borough - if
not we will repeal the ordin­ance,”
he concluded.
The discussion followed a
protest by neighbors over a
age for Denominational Night
and the Rev. John Raezer,
treasurer of Synod and pastor
of St. Andrews Evangelical and
Reforrhed, Lancaster, will lead
the devotions. The Rev. Robert
Roschey, pastor of St. Lukes
Evangelical and Reformed Lan­caster,
will be the soloist.
The Re-Dedication service
will be held on Sunday, June
11th at 10:30 A.M. and the Rev.
> David Dunn, D.D. professor of
Claims Police
Won’t Arrest
Peeping Tom
accept the position even if it
were offered to me.”
Several names were being
mentioned as possible candi­dates
this weey. These included
Former Councilman Elmer
Bomberger, Clarence Herr,
local insurance agent, and Rob-the
ran k of Staff Sergeant. Sgt.
Mohler distinguished himself as
a clarinet player during his
high school days here when he
represented Lititz in the state
music and forensic contests, je r*- Trimble, hardware store
He also has played in the Lan-1 proprietor.______ •
easier, Columbia and York
Symphonies and has attended
Curtis Institute of Music for
the past several years. He will
continue his college studies in
addition to his duties as a
member of the Marine Band.
dump on the Clayton Brubaker |c h u rc h Hisiory ^ ^ Lan.
farm operated by John B e c k e r, cagter Seminary> w iu be the
Boro To Build
New Septic Tank
The borough is
financing repairs to
eral S utter Hotel’s
council announced
night when plans were okeyed
for building a septic tan k at
the re a r of the firehouse.
speaker.
The Northern Fellowship
Male Chorus will present a
musical in the evening at 7:30.
through s p eciai music will also feature
the Gen- an th e services,
cesspool, j xhe public is cordially in-
Tuesday | vited to attend.
Councilman Nissley estimated
d u rin g 1 the cost a t $100 as compared
Assembly in the High school with $500 spent to rep a ir the
auditorium. Post Commander j cesspool used jointly by the
H a rry F. Ruley and Mrs. John hotel and the firehouse, last
Helter, president of the Ladies year,
Auxiliary of the American
Legion, made the presentations.
The awards are based on
scholarship, leadership and
character.
Athle tic Honors
Athletic awards were made
during Assembly in th e high
school on Tuesday. The follow- j tion is being
(Continued on page 8) waste water.
At the same time, borough
officials began wondering what
was causing a niniature ill­smelling
geyser which broke
through the curb in fro n t of
the hotel cesspool on Main
Street yesterday. Local plum­bers
predicted th e entire sec-undermined
by
Many Greet
Dr. Sammel
Music Service
In Memory Of
Vic Wagner
The
Philosophers
(As overheard by John Boyd.)
Well now, Mrs. Veiss! Come j Not much - and th a t’s w hat
on inside. I th in k it is still a worries me still. He looked at
little too cool to set outside on me kind of funny lik e and
th e porch.
Yes, th a t it is, Mrs. Espen-shate.
A body would th in k
summer would never get here
still. Chake says th a t when it
does come it will be a scorcher
and th a t he does not want to
chust shook his head from site
to side and kept rig h t on eat­ing.
What do you th in k of my
new hair-do, I says, and he
said he really h adn’t given it
much thought at all yet. And
then I says, do you like it this
h ear me say a word about how j way, and he says it is very
hot it is. I see you got your nice. Don’t you like it, I says,
h a ir done a new way. It looks - and he says, yes, it is very nice
uh - re a l nice. very becoming to you - and
Yes, I got it done and at please pass the salt,
first I like it, but now I don’t I Well, a body couldn’t say he
know still - What do you mean? j actually raved about it, th a t’s
Why, I don’t know w hat for sure.
C’-horch really thinks about it. |„ No. I am inclined to th in k
What did he say when he th a t he didn’t like it much,
| saw it? j (Continued on page 5)
A congregation th a t filled al­most
every place greeted Dr.
W. Raymond Sammel, former
pastor of St. P au l’s, who
preached in the absence of the
Rev. Francis R. Bell. Dr. and
Mrs. Sammel were greeted by
a large number of friends fol­lowing
the service.
First Offering
The first offering from mem­bers
of St. P a u l’s Lutheran
Church for the Christian Higher
Education Appeal of the United
Lutheran Church will be re ­ceived
this Sunday. Five fu r­ther
offerings have been plan­ned
for the next year and a
half to enable the local congre­gation
to reach its quota.
Vacation School
The daily vacation Bible
school oof St. P au l’s will open
on Monday a week, the 12th.
A meeting of all workers will
be held tomorrow (Friday)
evening.
There will be no vespers in
St. P au l’s until September.
Local “Peeping Toms” are
known by borough police but
no arrests are made, according
to a vigorous protest lodged be­fore
borough council Tuesday
evening by H a rry Wagaman,
East Second Avenue.
“I have reported a Peeping
Tom to our borough police on
several occasions,” Mr. Waga­man
informed members of
council. “They inform me th a t
they know who it is and th a t I
will not be troubled any more.
Then for a few nights every­thing
is quiet only to break out
again.”
“I came here to find out if
this is the policy this borough
intends to follow,” he added.
“The other night I almost
caught the Peeping Tom after
he tried to force open a door.
I then started looking for the
night officer and finally located
him on the second floor of the
firehouse. But all he did was
tell me he knew who was do­ing
it.”
According to Wagaman, the
Peeping Tom, night after night,
moved a pile of cement blocks
from one p a rt of the yard over
to a first-floor window, sup-posely
to stand on. Wagaman
would ca rry them back again
only to find th a t the Peeping
Tom had used them again the
next night.
Program In Fellowship
Hall This Sunday
Afternoon
A service of music .honoring
the memory of Victor Wagner,
will be held in the Moravian
Fellowship Hall this Sunday
afternoon a t 3 P.M. Burgess
Wagner, who died on May 12,
had been Choir Master for 21
years and a member of the
Mary Kathryn George
Is Bride Of
James M. Dietrich
Impressive
Memorial Day
Program Held
Rev. Swanson . Delivers
Stirring Address On
Democracy
Impressive Memorial Day ex­ercises
were held here Tuesday
morning when several hundred
local residents, ex-service men
and school children gathered
at the Moravian Cemetery to
pay honor to the memory of the
dead of all wars.
Addressing the group, Rev.
Harvey Swanson, of Lancaster,
who served as a chaplain in
the war, urged the public to
make each day a memorial day
for those who are gone.
“Many of us do not fully
realize the significance of our
democracy,” he asserted. “We
Trombone Choir for 31 years, take for granted what millions
The Senior and Junior Choirs, j of people of the world vainly
Trombone Choir, Orchestra and
Soloists will share in the pro­gram.
Mrs. George L. Keehn
will direct both choirs and
John W. Keehn will lead the
Trombone Choir and the Or­chestra.
Mrs. Kenneth Witmyer
will be Organist and Mrs. Gor­don
O. Trump will be pianist.
• Joseph Zahm chairman of
the Music Committee and mem­ber
of the Board of Elders will
offer prayer. Mrs. David P.
Bricker who organized and
then for twelve years directed
the first Ju nior Choir and who
for many years sang in the
Senior Choir, will read the
Scripture Lesson.
The Senior Choir will sing
two anthems: “Hallelujah,
Amen” (Handel) and “Sanctus”
(Gounod) with Benjamin Lutz
III as soloist.
The Ju nior Choir numbers
will be: “The Lord’s P ra y e r”
(Keating and “When They Ring
Those Golden Bells” (DeMar-belle).
seek. Those we honor today
won th e ir victory in war - it is
our duty to win the peace. The
living can be a memorial each
day for those who made the
supreme sacrifice th a t this
democracy might live.”
Consider Alleged Nuisan­ces
At Lengthy Meeting
Tuesday Night
Are sheep more of a nuis- 1
ance than trailers parked in
residential areas? This was one
of several perplexing questions
to which council sought ans­wers
at a lengthy session Tues­day
night.
Appearing before council,
Levi Yerger claimed th a t the
borough’s plans for passing an
ordinance banning sheep stables
within 250 feet of homes, was
the resu lt of a spite-battle aim­ed
solely at him. “Those sheep
have been in my meadow for
the past th irty years - longer
than the people who now are
objecting to them, have lived
there,” he asserted.
Dr. Howard B. Minnich also
spoke against the proposed
ordinance, asserting th a t such
regulation would soon eliminate
all stables, horses, dogs, cats
and other pets from the bor­ough.
“I th in k council ought to
more thoroughly investigate
this situation before acting,”
he declared.
Councilmen explained th a t no
ordinance has been drawn up
and th a t no action will be
taken u n til after all phases of
the matter have been probed.
A petition signed by 12
residents of the Forney De­velopment
asking council to
ban a tra ile r being located on
one of the lots there, was p re­sented
by Lester Stark, local
school teacher. The petition
asked (1) an ordinance banning
tra ile rs in residential districts;
(2) an assessment against tra il­ers
for school and borough p u r­poses;
and (3) th a t Harry Whit-craft,
owner of the lot be ad­vised
th a t ¿he borough is plan­ning
to act against trailers. The
tra ile r in question is occupied
by Raymond Kreider, Whit-craft’s
son-in-law.
Councilman Rohrer explain­ed
th a t the subject of trailers
will be included in a building
ordinance being considered by
the borough. The borough also
voted to contact the University
of Pennsylvania and ask th a t a
model ordinance and a local
survey be made.
Former service men, led by
the Lititz Community Band and
the Lititz High School Band,
marched from the Square to
the cemetery and retu rn . School
children in the line of march
decorated graves. Earlier in the
day, local service men conduc­ted
services at Rothsville.
The local line of march also
included two local veterans of
the Spanish American War:
Fred Geesey and Adam Show
OPENS REPAIR DEPT.
Abe Miller, propreitor of the
Miller Service Station on South
Broad Street today announced
the opening of a general re ­pair
department with Ray Gas-sert
as foreman.
TO BUILD GUARDRAIL
AT WATER WORKS
A small pond in front of the
pumping station will be fenced
off with an iron guardrail to
protect the public from falling
in, borough officials announced
this week.
The pond, which is four feet
deep, is located in a section in
which many persons annually
watch th e fireworks display.
Last year, Howard Richardson
fell in the water.
The marriage of Mary Kath
ryn George, granddaughter of
Clayton G. Fry, 652 East Main
Street, to James M. Dietrich,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Madison
Dietrich, Lititz R l, took place
Sunday a t 2 P.M. in Trinity
Evangelical Congregational
Church. The Rev. George B.
Carvell officiated a t the double
ring ceremony.
The bride was given in m a r­riage
by h e r cousin, Clayton H.
George, Lititz. The maid of
honor was Miss Gladys J . Fry,
Lititz, cousin of the bride, and
h er bridesmaid was Miss Jan e t
Longenecker, Denver R2, sister
of the bride.
The best man was Kenneth
Dietrich, Lititz R l, brother of
the groom. Roy Hollinger, Lititz
and William Evans, Landisville,
served as ushers.
Would Name Streets Here
For Local War Dead
Not
several local streets meaning­less
bu t some are not the same
as they appear on the borough
plan.
This was divulged here this
week a fte r Robert Haines, East
Second Avenue, urged council
to re-name several local streets
to honor veterans who lost
th eir liyes during th e recent
war. Names such as Cherry,
Plum, etc. a re not only mean­ingless
b u t unpopular, he as­serted.
Samuel Nuss also disclosed
th a t he has a petition signed
Students See
Replica Of
Liberty Bell
A replica of th e Liberty Bell,
a gift from the people of
France, visited Lititz Wednes­day
morning when it was
viewed - and even rung - by
local high school students.
The bell, one of 48 sent here
from France as gifts to each of
the states, is on tour to arouse
interest in the cu rren t sale of
government savings bonds. The
Lititz High School Band p a r­aded
and played as a p a rt of
the program.
Kirk Garber, president of the
Senior Class, was one of those
permitted to ring the bell. On
Ju ly 4th the bell will be on
display in Philadelphia and
th en taken to Valley- Forge for
the Boy Scout Jamboree. It is
being guarded while on tour by
an honor guard of Pennsyl­vania
State Troopers.
ROBT. LUTZ GRADUATES
only a re the names of by a number of Water Street
residents asking th a t Water
Street be changed b u t not sug­gesting
any new name. Council- T
man Dr. Byron K. Horne a t ™ “ NAZARINE COLLEGE
this point suggested that all
needed to change street names
would be for residents to bring
in suggestions to council.
A study of the borough plan
also disclosed th a t the word
“avemie” is improperly applied
to several streets here. The
plan includes Second and
Third Streets and not avenue,
he explained. East Petersburg
Road also is East Petersburg
Avenue on the official plan.
Robert P. Lutz, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Benjamin F. Lutz,
Cedar Street, this borough
graduated from the Eastern
Nazarene College, Quincy, Mass.
On Tuesday, May 30. Mr. Lutz
graduated as a minister of the
Nazarene Church.
His fa th e r and daughter
Roberta left by plane on Tues­day
morning to attend the ex-cercises.
They expect to be gone
about a week.