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(Consolidated with The Lititz Record, 1937) Lltltz> Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, January 13, 1955
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within Lancaster County; $2.50 elsewhere No. 41
Borough Manager Submits Resignation To Council
Farm
Bobst
Confers
With Buch
Look For Decision Early
Next Week Upon His
Return From Florida
The success of negotiations be­ing
carried on for the purchase
of the Buch Farm here will de­cide
whether Warner-Hudnut
comes to Lititz, it was disclosed
here yesterday.
In fact, negotiations, have
reached the point where a report
was circulated here this week
th a t Warner-Hudnut had com­pleted
the purchase, but this
could not be corroborated.
Results of negotiations in all
probability will become known
ea rly next week upon the re tu rn
o f Elmer Bobst, Warner-Hudnut
head, from a yachting trip. The
pleasure trip, in which Dr. Her­b
e rt K. Cooper, also formerly of
this borough, Is a guest, was in­te
rrupted th is week long enough
to permit Mr. Bobst to visit
Newton Buch a t his home in Sar­asota,
Florida.
Should these negotiations
prove successful, Lititz will have
emerged triumphant despite con­siderable
competition from other
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PTA To Hear
Lecturer
Next Thurs.
On Thursday, Jan u a ry 20, the
Lititz Parent Teacher Associa­tio
n ' will have the privilege of
discussing th e ir problems with
Arch J. McQuilkin, well-known
lecturer and after-dinner speak­er.
Mr. McQuilkin, who is assist­ant
comptroller of Fidelity Life
Insurance Co., Philadelphia, is
widely known as an advisor and
lecturer in young people’s in te r­denominational
groups, and is
vice president and director of
the World Christian Endeavor
Union, in which capacity he has
appeared in many parts of the
world as a lecturer. In fact, last
year, he appeared as a speaker
on the same platform with the
President and Vice-President of
th e United States.
Mr. McQuilkin, a Presbyterian,
keeps in touch with youth by
teaching th e high school group in
his church school every Sunday.
President Max Hoaster will
conduct th e meeting in th e Lit­itz
High School auditorium. Dr.
E arl Bowman, pastor of th e
Brethren Church, will give the
invocation. Albert Ebbert, a
member of the program com­mittee,
will Introduce the speak­er.
The Lititz High School band,
directed by Henry Steiner, will
provide music, and refreshments
will be served in the school cafe­te
ria a t the close of the meeting.
A la rg e tu rn o u t is anticipated to
h e a r Mr. McQuilkin, who is rec­ognized
everywhere as an au th o r­ity
on juvenile and parental de­linquencies.
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Rotary Donates $ 1,000 To Center
SISTERS HERE TO WED
The betrothals of two well-known sisters h ere were an ­nounced
th is week by th e ir parents, Mr. and Mrs. Russel F . Ludwig,
of 25 Apple S treet, th is borough.
They a re :
P a tric ia Ludwig, le ft, who is engaged to wed Corp. Robert
Holier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence HoiTer, of Manhrim Miss
Ludwig is a senior a t L ititz High School. H e r fiance Is serving
in the U. S. Marine Corps, an d is stationed a t Quantico, Va.
Miss Audra Ludwig, rig h t, who will wed Corp. George D.
Steinman, son of Mrs. Clara F ich tn e r and th e la te Daniel Stein-man,
of P a rad ise RD1. She is employed as a receptionist in the
office of Dr. Mary A. Howell, chiropractor here. H e r fiance is
serving in th e U. S. Marine Corps aboard th e c a rrie r, TJ.S.S. Hornet.
D. M. Graybill Retires As
Springs Bank President
After Serving 46 Years
Hiram H. Diehm Elected
To Succeed Him at Re-
Organization Meeting
Mrs. Lydia Mearig
Marks 90th Birthday
Mrs. Lydia Mearig, of 25 West
Marion Street, quietly celebrat­ed
her ninetieth birthday yester­day.
She is one oft he oldest
members of the Trinity Evangel­ical
Congregational Church and
has been a read of the Record
for the past helf century.
She is a sister of Benjamin F.
Lutz, this borough.
Calender
Of The Week
Hiram H. Diehm,, who has
served as cashier for the past
36 years, was elected president
of the Lititz Springs National
Bank at the annual re-organiza­tion
meeting of directors yester­day.
H
e succeeds David M. Graybill,
who has served as president of
the institution since its organ­ization
June 1, 1909. Mr. Gray­bill
becomes chairman of the
board of directors of the bank.
At the opening of the re-or­ganization,
Mr. Graybill inform­ed
directors th a t he desired to
be relieved of the position of
president of the bank, but agreed
to continue as head of the board.
Mr. Graybill is the only sur­viving
member of the original
board of directors who gathered
and launched the bank upon its
outstandingly - successful career
more th an 45 years ago. During
th a t first year the bank listed
deposits of $7,494.54 and re­sources
of $36,994.64.
At the end of the first five-year
period, th e bank’s deposits had
increased to $346,011.58 and its
resources had reached the im­posing
figure of $447,688.18.
Under Mr. Graybill’s guidance,
the Springs Bank ended its first
decade of existence with resourc­es
of $906,924.03, which climb­ed
to $1,450,334.62 by 1924.
At the present time the bank
lists its resources a t $6,895,-
509.07 and is considered one of
the strongest banks of the state.
Deposits alone are listed at
$6,202,527.91.
Other officers elected yester­day
are: Dr. M. H. Yoder, vice
president; LeRoy Kling, cashier;
Ralph W. Wier and John W.
tlberly, assistant cashiers.
At the annual directors meet-
Completes 46 Years
A$ Bank President
David M. Graybill
ing held Tuesday, David R. Buck-waiter
was elected to the board
to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Charles K. Keath.
Members of the board are:
Mr. Graybill, Dr. If Oder, Mahlon
H. Hostetter, Paul F. Diehm,
Mr. Buckwalter and Mr. Diehm
LUKE GROSH
MOVES TO EASTON
Luke Grosh, who has lived
in the Doster Apartments, East
Main Street, since retu rn in g to
Lititz several years ago, moved
to the Moravian Men’s Home a t
Easton on Tuesday.
Luke, who is a native of this
borough, spent many hours in
the Lititz Springs beautifying
the park during his leisure hours
in the summer months. He also
was an active member of the
Young Men’s Business League.
Mothers March On Polio
Here On January 27
Expect 250
At Dinner Of
Civic Groups
Elected Di rector
To Unite On Community
Project For 1955; Offi­cials
To Attend
Approximately 250 local civic
leaders and officials are expected
to attend the first joint-meetinp
of local clubs and organization^
to be held in the high school
gymnasium next Wednesday eve­ning.
With borough and school offi­cials
in attendance and an array
of outstanding speakers to spark
the community meeting, the
group will consider uniting its
efforts in accomplishing some
community project7during 1955.
Another possible outcome of
the dinner-meeting will be the
organization of a Lititz Commun­ity
Council through which rep­resentatives
of local clubs will
correlate activities and indulge
in a b it of long-range planning
regarding community projects.
Those invited as guests to
Wednesday evening’s dinner a re
members of the Warwick Union
School Board, the Lititz Area
School Authority, the Lititz Bor­ough
Council, Burgess Benjamin
Forrest, the Sewer Authority and
the Lititz Ministerial Association.
Groups attending are the Ro­ta
ry Club, Lions Club, Woman’s
Club, A.B.C., and the A.B.C.D.
Dr. Chester L. Wertsch will
serve as toa stma ste r and speak­ers
will include Dr. Herbert 'K.
Cooper, of Lancaster, and Ken­neth
Abel, of the sta te recreation
board.
• Music will be furnished by a
trio from Ira Bowman’s orches­tra.
The dinner will be prepared
by the women of the school cafe­teria.
Ed Bear Elected
President Of
Business League
Alfred L. Douple
A. L. Douple
Elected To
Bank Board
Alfred L. Douple was elected! a1
members of the board of direc­tors
of the Farmers National
Bank a t the annual directors'
meeting held here th is week.
Mr. Douple has been a mem­ber
of th e bank staff for the
past thirty-five years. He pres­ently
is serving as tru s t officer
and assistant cashier. He has
been in charge of the bank’s
tru s t department since it was
organized.
By his election, the F armers
Bank board was increased firom
six members, la st year, to its
full strength of seven. Directors
re-elected are Henry L. Bom-berger,
Henry B. Gibbel, H.
Lloyd Hess, Judge Joseph B.
Wissler and Raymond D. Buck-waiter.
The bank will hold its annual
re-organization meeting next
Monday morning when Mr. Gib-bel
is expected to be re-elected
president.
Ed Bear, popular member of
the local postoffice staff, was
elected president of the Young
Men’s Business League a t the
annual re-organization meeting
held Monday evening.
The election followed the an­nual
oyster supper served to
more th an eighty members of
the organization.
Other officers elected are A. C.
Fleckenstein, vice president;
M. C. Demmy, secretary; John
Keller, treasurer.
Mike Rosenberg, Marlin Wolf
and Roy Long were elected to
three-year terms on the board of
directors. Other members of the
board are Mahlon Hostetter,
Harry Hershey and James Yer-ger.
T
wo new members elected are
Paul E. Balmer and J. Hurley
Nuss.
DRIVER CHARGED AFTER
TWO-CAR COLLISION
Today — Jan. 18
Moravian Church School
Workers’ Conference, 7:30 p.m.
Monday — Jan . 17
Lititz Woman’s Club meets
at General Sutter, 8:00 p.m.
Open Meeting.
National T hrift Week begins
today.
Tuesday — Jan . 18
Lady Sutter Rebekah Lodge j
No. 435 will meet a t I.O.O.F. Hall 1
111 North Broad St., a t 8 p.m.
Wednesday — Jan. 19 ,
Civic Clubs Dinner a t H. S. 1
gymnasium.
The Mothers’ March on Polio
will be conducted here Thursday
evening, January 27, from 7 to
8 p.m., Mrs. M. C. Demmy, local
chairman for the 1955 polio
drive for funds, announced this
week.
Committees of workers will
be set up to cover every block
of the borough and an effort will
be made to contact every home
in the borough during the hour-long
solicitation, Mrs. Demmy
explained. The list of local work­ers
will be announced next week.
Mrs. Demmy th is week named
the following committee to or­ganize
workers throughout the
borough: Mrs. Alfred Douple,
Mrs. Albert Ebbert, Mrs. Elser
Gerhart, Mrs.« Barton Sharp, Mrs.
Samuel Hoffman, Mrs. William
Oehme, Mrs. Glen Knight, Mrs.
Horace Bleacher, Postmaster
Robert Pfautz and Robert Reid-enbaugh.
Mothers will lead the groups
and much of the door-to-door
soliciting will be made by chil­dren.
In emphasizing the need for
generous support of the current
polio campaign, Mrs. Demmy
pointed out th a t the records show
the re were 106 polio cases so far
this year rig h t here in Lancaster
City and County and th a t better
th a n $125,000 has been spent
here for polio this year. The
county chapter is facing a$ 20,-
000 deficit.
“That should indicate the ser­iousness
of this drive for funds,”
Mrs. Demmy asserted.
J. Warren Heisey, Elizabeth­town
Rl, was prosecuted by
Lititz Policeman Lloyd Hoff­man
for ignoring a stop sign
following an auto accident
at 3 p.m. yesterday in this
borough.
Hoffman said Heisey was
traveling north on Cedar
Street w h e n h e failed to' ob­serve
the stop sign and struck
an auto operated by Russell
Pettijohn, Lititz, causing about
$350 damage. Heisey will be
summoned for a hearing be­fore
Justice of the Peace Paul
Diehm, Lititz.
Armold Buys
Jewelry Store
Evenwel To Fly
To Europe
Gerard Evenwel, newly-instal­led
president of the Lititz Chap­te
r of the American Business
Club, will fly to London this
week-end in the s ta rt of a, busi­ness
tour of European countries.
Mr. Evenwel will represent
the Armstrong Cork Company in
the to u r which will Include Hol­land,
Germany, Belgium and
France. After completing his
work for the company, he plans
to spend a week visiting rela­tives
in Rotterdam.
LANDIS MARTIN
PURCHASES FARM
A 74%-acre farm, two miles
west of Schaefferstown was
bought Saturday for $29,000
at a public sale by H. Landis
Martin .Lititz Rl.
Martin purchased the farm,
which includes a two and one-half
story home, from the es­tate
of Allen G. Horst.
W.C.T.U. To Collect
Clothes For Indians
Directors
Increase
Pledge
Donation Comes On Eve
Of Drive For Funds;
Lehmann Cites Need
At a special meeting Tuesday
evening, directors of the Lititz
Rotary Club voted to donate $1,-
000 to the Lititz Community
Center.
The donation, which tops all
gifts from local groups to-date,
comes on the eve of the annual
Center drive for funds and a t a
time when the local recreation
association is in dire need for
funds to accomplish its much-accelerated
program this year.
Previously the Rotary Club
h ad pledged itself to donate $250
to the Center providing a full­time
director was hired. With the
success, of the Center’s new pro­gram
already apparent, directors,
following a brief discussion, de­cided
to up the donation to the
$1,000 mark.
Lehmann Explains Program
Generous support for the an­nual1
drive for funds of the Lititz
Community Center which sta rts
next week, is urged in an appeal
made this week by Bernard Leh­mann,
director of the Center.
Leisure-time recreational ac­tivities
should be available to
every person in the community,
Lehmann asserts. His appeal
follows:.
Recreation during leisure time
should be available to, every per­son
in the community whether
they are 1 or 100 years old.
Since various services,, such as
police and fire protection, health
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Accepts Position
At Newark, Delaware;
Boro Seeks Successor
Leaves Next Month Served As First Manager
In History Of Borough;
Here Since 1951
1 ,
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Job Survey
Completed
Orville Over
Borough Will
Prepare Wier
For Tests
The man-power survey con­ducted
by the seniors of the Lit­itz
and Rothsville High Schools
was. completed and handed to the
ABC Club on Tuesday for tabu­lation.
Miss Dorothy Edwards, per­sonnel
director of th e Armstrong
Cork Company, Lancaster, will
address grades ten, eleven and
twelve of the local high school.
This is a p art of the vocational
guidance program.
The High School mid-year ex­aminations
will be held from
Ja n u a ry 19th to 21st inclusive.
The Ju n io r League of Lancas­te
r will present a program for
grades one to six during the As-semgly
period on Thursday morn­ing.
Sportsmen To
Re-organize
David R. Armold, Lancaster,
th is week announced the recent
purchase of the Reidenbach
Jewelry Store, 55 E. Main Street,
from Robert E. Simmons. Mr.
Armold liver here prior to en ter­ing
the service and has been as­sociated
with the jewelry busi­ness
for the past ten years.
He also announced the employ­ment
of Robert Pollock, expert
watch repairman. His wife, form­erly
Ruby Williams, of Manheim,
will assist in the management of
the store.
At the meeting of the WCTU
which was held last Monday
at the home of Mrs. Lloyd
Smith, it was decided to have
as a special project for. the
year—The Paiute Indians of
Nevada, and an appeal is be­ing
made for yardage of
cotton prints and quilt pieces.
Also there is great need for
shoes (no high heels). Any
one wishing to help in this
work please contact Mrs. Da­vid
Forry RD 3—phone 6-0296
or other members of the
union.
PVT. VAUGHN DOWNING
SERVING IN. GERMANY
Pvt. Vaughn R. Downing,
twenty-three, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank B. Downing, 35
E. Front St., this borough, is
serving in Germany with the
291st Field Artillery Bat­talion
A fire direction compu­ter
in Headquarter Battery,
he entered the Army in Febru­ary
1953. Before joinnlg the
service he was self-employed
as a farmer in Quarryville.
The Lititz Sportsmen will hold
a special meeting th is Monday
evening a t 7 o’clock a t the Rec­reation
Center to organize the
association. In • the past few
months- meetings failed, th e re­fore
a special business meeting
will be held to organize the, asso­ciation
into an active progressive
and useful organization.
Most sportsmen do not realize
the full usefulness of this or­ganization.
They think of it as
an association th a t stocks pheas­ants
and rabbits. However at
each and every meeting resolu­tions
are passed and rejected,
th a t effect the hunting and fish­ing
of all local sportsmen. I t is
the sincere hope of the approxi­mate
10 active members o f 'th is
association to organize into an
active and useful organization
th a t will tru ly represent the
sportsmen and also aid in recre­ation
and develop new interests
in local sportsmen.
A wier will be set up in the
stream in the park to measure
water pumped from borough
wells in pumping tests, Borough
Manager Orville Over disclosed
yesterday.
Gauges are being attached to
the various borough wells and a t
the head of the springs to esti­mate
the difference in flow as
the borough continues pumping
a t the ra te of 700 gallons per
minute.
Another problem before the
tests can be made, probably the
week of January 24, is how to
get rid of th e water pumped
from the borough wells. This
will be done either with fire hose
from the pumping station to the
stream in the park or through
the construction of a trough.
These matters will be decided
a t a conference here tomorrow
between borough officials and
Henry Huth, of Lancaster, water
engineer. The tests are part of
a survey to determine future ex­pansions
of the local water sys­tem.
Anthropol’ist
To Address
Womans Club
Dr. E thel Alpenfels, professor
of Education a t New York Uni­versity,
will speak at the month­ly
meeting of the Lititz Woman’s
Club, to be held a t 8 o’clock
Monday evening, in the General
Sutter Hotel. Her subject will
be “Adam to Atom” human re­lations
today. This is an open
meeting and the public, men and
women, are cordially invited to
attend. The Club is also sponsor­ing
Dr. Alpenfels’ appearance at
the local High School assembly
in th e afternoon.
Dr. Alpsnfels, anthropologist,
began her career as a school
teacher in Denver, Colorado.
During a leave of absence she
worked for and received her mas­te
rs degree and became in te r­ested
in the special field of an­thropology
a t the University of
Oregon.
She is highly regarded as a
speaker and was very well re­ceived
this fall by th e teachers
of the county when she was a key
speaker at the Lancaster County
Teachers Institute.
Mrs. William Whitten, Jr.,
will preside a t the business meet­ing.
Orville Over last Friday ten­dered
his resignation as Borough
Manager to President of Council
Menno Rohrer.
Holding a special session Sat­urday,
members of borough coun­cil
accepted the resignation
“with deep reg re ts” and imme­diately
launched efforts to ob­tain
a successor for Mr. Over.
Mr. Over, whose resignation
becomes effective February 15,
has accepted the position of City
Manager of Newark, Delaware,
a t a salary of $9,000. He received
$6,100 as head of the borough
government here.
Newark, a city of 10,000 per­sons,
operates its own water and
sewerage systems th e same as
Lititz but in addition controls
electric power and light distri­bution
in th e community. The
city has approximately 60 em­ployees
and is in th e midst of a
period of rapid growth as a re ­sult
of several new industrial
plants being located there.
Mr. Over was appointed man­ager
here in 1951 immediately
a fte r members of borough coun­cil
passed legislation to adopt
the borough manager form of
government here.
His four years have been un­usually
busy and important ones
due to the construction of the
sewerage system. He leaves L it­itz
a t a time when th e borough
is contemplating ma jor additions
and improvements to the water
system, th e construction of storm
sewers for a large portion of the
borough and the extension ■ of
sanitary sewers to keep pace
with local realty developments.
Mr. Over’s le tte r of resignation
follows:
It is with deep feeling th a t I
submit my resignation as Bor­ough
Manager of Lititz effective
February 15, 1955, in order to
accept the position of City Man­ager
of Newark, Delaware.
I am resigning as Tax Collec­to
r and Borough Secretary effec­tive
this date and want to be
relieved of fu rth e r responslbili-
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Rolling Hills Group
Tenth Anniversary
The Rolling Hills Neighbor­hood
group of Girl Scouts will
celebrate Its ten th anniversary
a t a dinner to be held Friday
evening in the social rooms of
St. P a u l’s Lutheran Church at
6:30 p.m.
Leaders and assistants will be
guests of the troop committee
members and a special program
has been planned. Mrs. Charlotte
Redcay will be in charge until
new officers are installed.
ON FROSH TEAM
GETTYSBURG, PA—Char­les
Landis, 56 E. Main St.,
Lititz, is a member of the
freshman basketball team at
Gettysburg College.
St. Luke's Sale
This Saturday
The Church School of St.
Luke’s Reformed Church will
hold a bazaar sale in the Fire
House this Saturday sta rtin g at
9 a.m.
Feature s of the sale will in­clude
chicken corn soup to take
out, c lam « mix, potato salad,
baked beans, home-made candy,
pies, cakes, cup cakes, sandwich­es,
Moravian sugar cake.
A White Elephant table will
also be included. The proceeds
will be used to defray th e ex­penses
of the renovation of the
church school annex.
WAYNE WALTER RETURNS
FROM HOSPITAL
Wayne Walter, Front St.,
-eturned Tuesday morning
from St. Joeph’s Hospital
where he spent the past four
weeks. Previous to that he
was in the University of Penn­sylvania
Hospital, Philadel­phia,
where he was a sur­gical
patient, for three weeks,
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Center Plans Summer Camp;
Also Swimming Lessons
Summer activities of the Lititz
Community Center -this year will
feature a Day Camp to be organ­ized
for boys and girls over eight
years of age, for the month of
June, according to Bernard Leh­mann,
Center director.
The camp will begin the th ird
week a fte r school closes in order
to prevent any conflict with the
church Bible Schools and the lo­cal
Girl Scouts’ program.
A camp atmosphere will be
created through pook-outs, In­dian
crafts, games, dancing and
ceremonies.
Lehmann also disclosed th a t
efforts a re being made to obtain
the E p h ra ta Legion pool for two
days a week in order to inaugu­ra
te swimming lessons fo r local
boys and girls. Center heads al­ready
are checking means of
transporta tion to and from the
pool.
The Center’s goal will be to
teach every boy and girl in the
community how to swim and to
know the rudiments of life­saving,
Mr. Lehmann added.
Other summer activities will
include baseball and softball,
with the hope th a t leagues can
be organized in both sports.