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(Con so lidated w ith T h e l i t i t z R eco rd , 1 937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, October 18, 1956 5 c en ts a Copy; $ 3 .5 0 p e r year- b y m a il,
w ith in L a n c a s t e r Cou n ty ; $ 3 .0 0 e lsew h e re . No. 29
Hitrunners
Prosecuted
By Police
80-Yr.-Old Man Escorted
Home After Hitting
Parked Car
Two alleged hit-and-run driv­ers,
both of whom crashed into
parked cars here, were among
nine motorists prosecuted by bor­ough
police over the past week­end.
Hearings will be held this
week before Justices of the
Peace Paul F. Diehm and Joseph
Herr.
After overtaking one of the
two motorists charged, police
found him to be an eighty-year-old
man. He is Charles R. Mar­lon,
of Lancaster. After inter­viewing
the aged driver, local
police drove him to his home
rather than permit him to drive.
According to Chief of Police
Lloyd Hoffman, Marion struck a
parked car owned by Rodney
Flory, of Lancaster, which was
parked in front of Bollinger s
store on Broad Street at the
time. Police were notified and
overtook Marion near Fry’s ga­rage
on East Main Street.
Police also prosecuted George
C. Beebe, of Norristown, on a
charge of striking a parked car
owned by William Kling which
was parked in front of Kling’s
home on North Cedar Street.
The accident occurred at 1 1 :SO
p.m. last Wednesday. Beebe is
affiliated with the Lambert-Hud-nut
plant here. He also faces a
charge of driving through a stop
sign.
Other motorists charged are:
Eugene Smith, Manheim, reck­less
driving; Kreider M. Way,
111 West Orange Street, this
horough, and Wilbur Faus, MU1-
ersville RD1, traffic light viola­tions:
Harry W. Wieland, East
Petersburg, stop sign violation;
Fred Rosskrob, Lancaster, and
Harold Lorah, East Lincoln Ave­nue,
this borough, too fast for
conditions; and Rodney Hoffer,
North Cedar Street, this bor­ough,
faulty muffler.
A HISTORIC EDIFICE
The Jerusalem Evangelical and Reformed Church located
at Penryn.
Penryn E. & R. Church
To Mark 229th Anniversary
Dr. Rum’el Will Decide
Addresses
Local Club
The brain is the greatest place
of unemployment in the world,
Dr. Paul Z. Rummel, of Lancas­ter,
informed members of the
Lititz Woman’s Club Monday eve­ning.
Dr. Rummel, who is professor
of psychology at Mlllersville
State Teachers College, was in­troduced
by Mrs. William Mit­chell.
Mrs. Martin Kutz, presi­dent,
presided at the meeting
held in the General Sutter Hotel.
Devoting much of his talk on
the conduct of children. Dr.
Rummel said that "without the
understanding of the parents a
child can grow up to be mala-justed.”
Of psychiatric cases in the
nation, 30 per-cent are cured of
mental ills, 30 per-cent partially
cured and 30 per-cent which can­not
possibly be cured, Dr. Rum­mel
cited.
Discussing child reactions, he
emphasized that "all children
want to he loved by their tea­chers
and parents.” Psychiatrists
always question not what pati­ents
are doing now, but what
they did in their early life. The
model child does not necessarily
become a happy adult and he
does not believe in pressuring
young children.
“A be-first complex is not good
for children, “Dr. Rummel em­phasized.
Prior to the talk, Miss Cath-ryn
Adams presented three local
girl scouts, Brook Minnich, Lor­raine
Miller and Nina Stroble,
who described the Senior Girl
Scout Round-up held in Michigan
(Continued on Page 12)
Observing its 229th anniver­sary
this coming Sunday, Jerusa­lem
Evangelical and Reformed
Church at Penrjm will be the
scene of many a homecoming on
the part of previous members
and their descendants.
Rev. Alton P. Albright, pastor,
will serve as Liturgist at the
service which opens at 9 a.m.,
and Rev. Truman A. Crist, D.B.,
of Harrisburg, president of the
Lancaster Synod, will deliver the
message of the day. Mrs. Clar­ence
Gochnaur is the organist,
and will accompany the choir in
numbers selected for the occa­sion.
The church was founded dur­ing
the period between 1720 and
1727 and was originally known
as the White Oak Church. Con­rad
Templemann, a tailor, serv­ed
as the first preacher of the
congregation.
The first church building was
constructed of logs in the year
1735; and was replaced a cen­tury
later by another but larger
log building which was covered
with weather-boarding.
(Continued on Page 7)
On Extending
Sewer Lines
The policy to be followed in
extending borough sewer mains
to sections not now reached will
be decided at a meeting of the
Sewer Authority November 14
when the local body will be ad­dressed
by Alfred Estrada, of
Albright & Freil, consulting en­gineers,
it was announced this
week.
At last month’s meeting of
council, borough officials went
on record as favoring building
the sewer extensions at borough
cost and with funds refunded
from the state. Advised of this,
the engineering firm has taken
the stand property owners should
be assessed a part of the cost.
Streets where sewer mains will
be laid include about 200 feet on
Forney Drive, East Second Street
east of Cherry; Kissel Hill Road,
Locust Street and South Broad,
south of Fifth Street.
The sewer improvement fund
created when . the sewer bonds
were issued also contains funds
which might be used for the im­provement,
borough officials
pointed out.
FALL VACATION
Warwick Union schools will
be closed next Thursday and
Friday, October 25 and 26 when
teachers will attend the annual
teachers institute at Neffsville.
Hallowe’en
Parade Plains
Announced
The three candidates for the
title of Hallowe’en Queen were
selected by local students here
this week. They are Susan Beck,
Joan Eckert and Sally Temple­ton,
chosen by tenth, eleventh
and twelfth grade students In the
Warwick High School.
The Queen will be chosen as
a feature of the annual Hallow­e’en
parade and block party to
be held Wednesday evening, Oc­tober
31, starting at 7 p.m. The
parade will form on Orange
Street and move north on Broad
Street to the Square, then east
on Main to Cedar, south on Ce­dar
to Juniper, returning to Main
Street by the way of Church
Square.
Returning to the Square, par­ticipants
will be awarded prizes.
The judges' stand will be placed
In front of Spacht’s. Following
the parade, a block party will
be held in the first block of East
Main Street.
Paul Lauderman, president of
the Lions Club, which sponsors
the Hallowe’en festivities, this
week named Harry Ruley in
charge of the parade marshals.
He will he assisted by Orris Nuss,
Donald Steffy, Fred Haggerty,
Stanley Brumbach, Harold Zand­ers
and Forbes Emsweller.
Music for the parade and party
will be furnished by the War­wick
High School Band, led by
Henry Steiner.
Prizes will be awarded for
floats, single mummers and for
groups. A committee headed by
Wilbur Miller and Howard Lebo
will announce these classifica­tions
next week.
TRINITY LADIES TO
HOLD RUMMAGE SALE
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Trinity Evangelical Congrega­tional
Church will hold a Rum­mage
Sale in the Firehouse on
Friday and Saturday, October
26 and 27. Homemade baked
goods wlil be on sale.
New Telephone Numbers
To Become Effectivé Sunday
From —
(The Bibit
He that hateth his brothei
is in darkness and walketh in
darkness and knoweth not
whither he goeth, because
that darkness hath blinded
his eyes.—(John 1,11.)
But in giving a sincere,
pleasant Bmile; in doing a
kindness; in being thought­ful,
considerate; in simply
holding good thoughts aboul
others—in these small, easy
ways we will ever walk in
oIa v ia iia I « /vVt
The new telephone numbers
throughout this section will be­come
effective Sunday morning
at 3:01, according to an an­nouncement
by the Denver &
Ephrata Telephone Company
this week.
From then on, Lititz numbers
will be listed under the MAdison
exchange, with other nearby
communities listed as follows:
Ephrata, REpubli;c Manheim,
MOhawk; Denver, ANdrew; and
Adamstown, HUxley.
Mailing of new telephone
number cards to be pasted over
the old numbers was completed
this week, Mrs. Bertha Brossman
Eaby, vice president of the com­pany,
explained.
Distribution of the new direc­tories
also was underway and
will be completed today. The new
directories cannot be used until
Sunday, it was explained.
The new central office names,
Mrs. Eaby said, were chosen af­ter
a considerable amount of re­search
and name testing over a
period of many years by engi­neers
of the Bell System. In
order to prevent confusion and
misdialing of calls, central office
„ ~ ,-W, t z r t * + U A n c i ' l t '
stood when spoken and easily
spelled.
After October 21, our exchang­es
will become part of the Na­tion-
Wide System of Numbering,
which is made necessary by the
great expansion of the dial sys­tem
and the greater distance
over which calls may be dialed.
Preparations for the change have
been underway locally for the
past three years. Installation of
special equipment in all of the
central offices had to be made.
3 50 switches in our five offices
had to be modified and new
cables installed; telephone dial
number plates had to be changed
on 15,460 telephones and many
other small but very important
adjustments had to he made. The
actual transition on Sunday
morning will take only a few sec­onds
in each of the five local
exchanges.
Another change, Mrs. Eaby
announced, will be the introduc­tion
of a four-column directory
instead of the three - column
book. This will make the direc­tory
more compact and easier
to use. As a suggestion, all per­sonal
lists of frequently called
Crucial Meeting To
Decide Park’s Future
Will Be Held Monday
Moravians Will Vote On
Relinquishing Control
Of Historic Tract
What is being described as one
of the most far-reaching meet­ings
in the past hundred years
of the Moravian Church will
be held in Fellowship Hall Mon­day
night when the congregation
will be asked to relinquish all
control over the Springs Park
although retaining ownership.
At that time, members of the
Bobst Committee headed by Wil­bur
Miller, will present its out­line
of the proposed method and
procedure for the control and
management of the park by the
group to be formed representing
all churches and important civic
organizations of the borough.
It was exactly 101 years ago
that the Moravian Congregation
met similarly and threw open the
community to persons of other
denominations, after having
maintained a strictly Moravian
town for the preceding century,
it was recalled here this week.
The report of the Bobst com­mittee
was submitted to Elmer
Bobst, now vacationing in Flor­ida,
in time for study and ap­parently
has met with his full
approval. With plans for the
extensive Improvement and en­largement
of the park now being
rushed to completion under Mr.
Bobst’s direction, approval of
the congregation to the report is
expected to be forthcoming Mon­day
night.
The first sign of actual work
in the park occurred this week
when Henry Huth, of Lancaster,
began a survey of the tract to
determine the boundaries and to
provide complete data for Mc­Cloud
and Scatchard, local land­scape
architects, now working on
the park improvement program.
As plans for the park were
being pushed ahead, the hitherto
hot controversy over the possi­bility
of a service station being
erected near the park entrance
on Broad Street, remained omin­ously
quiet. As far as could be
determined, the properties now
are the property of the Atlantic
Refining Company which appar­ently
has not proceded any fur­ther
with plans for any improve­ment
there.
SMALL PRY GRIDDERS
MEET HORNETS SUNDAY
There will be no Midget foot­ball
here this Sunday. The local
boys will meet the Hornets on
the Manheim Township field;
and the following Sunday they
play the Eagles. On November 4,
the Pretzellettes will give an ex­hibition
of baton twirling at half
time.
OSTEOPATHIC GUILD TO
HOLD RAKED HAM SUPPER
A baked ham supper spon­sored
by the Lititz Giuld of the
Osteopathic Hospital will be held
in the firehouse* on November
10 from 4 to 8 i>.m.
LOCAL SPORTSMEN
WILL HUNT TURKEY
A group of seven local sports­men
will leave Friday for Cedar
Run, Lycoming County, to hunt
wild turkey. They include Owen
Hershey, Dr. Chester L. Wertsch,
Abe Hershey, Dervin Runk, Har­vey
Runk, Raymond Runk, and
Chester Wertsch, Jr.
Com. Chest
Collections
Seen Lagging
United Community Campaign
collections here are lagging hut
are expected to gain momentum
with the second reporting by lo­cal
team captains this Friday,
Herbert Kraybill, borough chair­man,
announced last night.
To-date the borough has col­lected
a total of $1,443. This
amount includes $850 tufrned
over from the Industrial Com­mittee
by Woody Meiskey, chair­man,
but does not include any­thing
from a number of team
captains.
, “A number of captains had no­thing
to report when we called
last Friday, but practically all
of these have gone into action
and I expect at least partial re­ports
from all this Friday,” Mr.
Kraybill announced.
"While Lititz has raised only
15 per-cent of its quota, I feel
certain we have only gotten off
to a slow start and will quickly
make this up,” he concluded.
Returns submitted last Friday
showed the county to have
reached $358,011, or approxi­mately
42 per-cent, of its goal.
Elizabethtown was the first coun­ty
borough to go over its quota,
reporting $5.530 already raised.
Center Sponsors
5-Year Program
For Recreation
An extensive 5-year study of
(recreational facilities for the
borough is being conducted by
Richard Westgate, Middle Atlan­tic
District representative for
the National Recreational Asso­ciation,
it was learned this week.
Members of the board of direc­tors
of the Recreation Center, and
Robert Sutherland, recreational
director, are assisting Mr. West-gate
in his exhaustive survey.
Mr. Sutherland said that plans
for two additional playgrounds
are already on drawing boards,
and that two others are being
sought in other sections of the
borough.
He pointed out that the sur­vey
may not be completed for an­other
six weeks ;and that full
details of the findings and rec-commendations
for attaining an
expanded program wlil be discus-
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Eisenhower Bandwagon To
Stop In Lititz On Wednesday
The Eisenhower Bandwagon,
complete with beauty queens,
music, an array of speakers and
banners galore, will visit Lititz
next Wednesday shortly after
noon, it was announced this week.
Leaving Schaefferstown shortly
after noon, the bandwagon will
make its first stop in the county
at Brickerville where a short
program will be presented. The
bandwagon is expected to reach
Lititz at 1:25 p.m. and will re­main
here approximately half an
hour.
Stops also will be made at
Kissel Hill, Neffsville and the
Lancaster Stock Yards before.
The bandwagon is one of six
units touring the nation. Wed­nesday
evening a bandwagon
torchlight parade will be held
in Lancaster and is expected to
be reminiscent of torchlight par­ades
of half a century ago. The
parade will start at Musser Park,
Lancaster, at 7 p.m. and will
tour principal streets of the cen­ter
of the city.
Featured in the parade will
be bands from Upper-Leaccok,
Ephrata and Lampeter-Strasburg
High Schools, the Elk Drill Team,
all eight of the Ike Girl Contest
winners and others. The Ike Girl
of Lancaster County will be se-
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DOWN TO A MERE TRICKLE
—Record-Express Photo
Wallace Lausch, local sportsman, left, and Frank Brown,
park committee member, right, dolefully contemplate the small
amount of water still passing beneath the Broad Street bridge at
the eastern end of the Springs Park.
Stream Through The Park
Appears To Be Drying Up
The sad status of the stream
running through the Lititz
Springs Park was causing con­siderable
concern here this week.
With the stream dropping per­ceptibly
each day for the past
week, the stream, fed by the
famous springs in the park, had
become a mere trickle at the
point where it passes under the
bridge at Broad Street, yester­day.
And while some observers
noted that all streams in this
locality still are not back to nor­mal,
others pointed out that the
stream in the park Is in much
worse shape than any of the
others. Old-timers could not re­call
seeing the str.eam this low—
at this time of year—at any time
since the record-breaking drouth
of a decade ago when the stream
dried up completely.
The claim that the borough
was drawing too much water
from the borough wells nearby
with the result that the springs
suffered, was refuted by Borough
Manager David Bauer who pro­duced
figures showing that the
borough Is pumping less water
now than it was one year ago.
By eliminating l e a k a g e s
throughout the borough in a
campaign launched more than a
year ago, the water department
during the past month has been
pumping 40,000 gallons per day
less than on the same dates last
year. This reduction is despite
that the Lambert-Hudnut plant
here now uses approximately
35,000 gallons of borough water
daily.
The cleaning out of the stream
at the Broad Street bridge was
advanced as one reason for the
stream level to drop. The pump­ing
of a considerable amount of
water from private wells by the
Wilbur-Suchard Chocolate Com­pany
also was seen a possible
reason for the stream’s low level.
Borough Councilman John
Helter expressed the opinion that
the building of many homes west
of the borough could be tapping
the borough’s water source.
Local sportsmen were protect­ing
a large number of fingerllng
trout placed In the stream, by
moving them west of the small
dam in the park. The boards at
this dam, located near the Cen­ter,
have been left In place to
keep the stream level high at
this point.
Should those boards be re­moved,
as was the practice for
many years at this time, the
stream leading to the head-end
would practically dry up, Frank
Brown, park committee member
and caretaker, pointed out.
Orange Street
Again Delayed
Despite that all curb has been
laid and grading completed, West
Orange Street will not be re­paved
until after the State High­way
crew has completed two
other projects, It was disclosed
here this week.
At present, state workers are
re-surfacing Water Street from
Main Street to the borough line.
This is expected to be completed
this week when the state high­way
crew will move to another
project north of the borough.
They expect to return to
Orange Street within the next
two weeks.
Business League Plans
Ladies Night1 Dinner
A ladies night banquet will
be held by the Young Men’s Bus­iness
League at the General Sut­ter
Hotel Monday evening, No­vember
12. Plans tor the ban­quet
were completed at a meet­ing
held this ^reek.
The program will feature the
renowned J. Paul Kehm, in
what is described as one of the
most unusual entertainment pro­grams
ever presented locally.
The dinner will start at 6:30
p.m.
Getting To Know Them------------------------------
The Lambert-Hudnut
Family In Our Town
Laurie D. Cox, Jr., now a res­ident
of Lancaster, is in charge
of all accounting operations at
Lambert-Hudnut Manufacturing
Laboratories, and is a native of
upper New York State.
He is a graduate of Acadia
University in Nova Scotia, and
the Harvard Graduate School of
Business Administration.
Mr. Cox entered his present
position last Spring, having prev­iously
been associated with Jo­seph
E. Seagram & Sons, Inc.;
International Milling; and the
Houghton-Mifflin Co. He Is a
member of the Manhattan Chap­ter
of the Systems and Procedur­es
Association, and the Harvard
Business School Club of New
York.
At his previous home in Ridge­wood,
New Jersey, Mr. Cox de­voted
much of his time to Scout­ing,
having served as a Scout
Master for quite some time.
In addition to his wife, the
Laurie D. Cox
Cann, Mr. Cox’s family consists
of four sons, Laurie, III (12);
John (11): Michpllp (7)* anri
Nab Man
Removing
Hgy. Flares
Police Prosecute Ephrata
Man Allegedly Caught
In The Act
Borough police were quick in
prosecuting the first of the
pranksters to carry their tricks
to the dangerous stage here this
week.
In fact, one alleged culprit
found himself collared by police
who arrived on the scene in the
local police cruiser before he had
completed removing caution
lights from the street.
According to Chief of Police
Lloyd Hoffman, he and Officer
Edward Maharg were driving in
the cruiser west on Woodcrest
Avenue when they suddenly
sighted a man kicking the warn­ing
flares away from a barrier
across the road. The barrier was
placed there to close the road
due to the digging of a sewer
excavation a few feet further
west.
After his arrest, the defendant
identified himself as Leroy D.
Martin, of Ephrata, but could
give no satisfactory explanation.
of his actions. He will face a
hearing before Justice of the
Peace Paul F. Diehm on a charge
of removing warning flares from
the highway.
Police pointed ont that remov­al
of the flares might have caus­ed
a serious accident if motor­ists
had no warning of the ex­cavation
across the highway.
Police also reported that
pranksters with a queer sense of
humor had shattered the window
of a new automobile parked
along the street. Melvin B. Sieg­fried,
of Lancaster, said the car
was parked near Diem’s Imple­ment
store when the damage
was done.
Police also have received re­ports
of the damaging of porch
chairs, bird baths and other
household articles in various
parts of the borough during the
past three nights.
Boro Leaders
To Be Feted
As LrH Opens
A banquet is being planned in
conjunction with the Open House *
festivities at the Lambert-Hud­nut
Manufacturing Laboratories
on November 14, it was disclosed
this week by company officials.
Preparations are being made
to issue invitations to representa­tives
of each local industry, as
well as representatives of Bor­ough
Council, School Board, Civic
Club and Ministerial Association,
Richard Pecheur, personnel di­rector,
announced.
The plant will be open for in­spection
to employees and their
families the evening of Novem­ber
13; and according to plans
at present, will be open to the
public during the afternoon and
evening of the day following,
Wednesday, November 14, with
the banquet tentatively sched­uled
for 6 o’clock that evening.
Included in the plans for en­tertainment,
will be the apear-ance
of Giselle MacKenzie and
Snooky Lanson, well-known TV
stars appearing each week on the
Hit Parade.” Final and com­plete
plans for the affair will be
announced in the near future,
Mr. Pecheur stated.
Window Painting
Project Proving
Popular Here
The Hallowe’en window paint­ing
contest sponsored by the Rec-creation
Center, has met with al­most
one hundred percent co­operation
on the part of local
storekeepers, Robert Sutherland,
Center director, reported yester­day.
He said that next Thursday
and Friday will probably be the
days when most of the boys and
girls will try their skills on store
windows throughout the boro,
vieing for recognition in their
daubing.
HALLOWE’EN PARTY FOR
GOLD STAR MOTHERS
The Ladies Auxiliary 1463,
VFW, will entertain the Gold
Star Mothers with a Hallowe’en
Party next Tuesday evening at
7:30 at the Post Home on Spruce
Street. Members of the Mount-ville
Auxiliary will also be
guests.
The County Council meeting
will he held tomorrow evening
with the Auxiliary members
meeting at the Recreation Cen-tpr
anri thp VFW mpp win moat