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Merchants
T o Donate
Pennies
Bowls of Pennies To
Be Placed Outside
Downtown Stores
Free parking for all Christ­mas
shoppers in Lititz!
This became a realtiy here
this week when a group of local
retailers agreed to place bowls
of pennies near the entrances of
the ir stores—and to invite all
shoppers to tak e out enough
pennies to pay for th e ir parking
while shopping.
Saturday Night Shopping
Local reta ile rs announced
th is week th a t most Lititz
stores will remain open
every Saturday evening u n til
Christmas. Most local mer­chants
also announced they
will be open all day Thurs­days
during December.
The move to stay open is
a p a r t of a borough-wide
plan to afford more shopping
hours for th e convenience of
yuletide shoppers. A p a rtia l
lis t of those remaining open
th is Saturday evening will be
found on Page 12. >
Borough Buys40,000Foot Pipeline For $1
Pool Study Meeting
Set For December 15
J. B. Hess and John Keller,
originators of th e idea, ex­plained
th a t it was only the
first step in a plan to make
Christmas shopping in Lititz as
appealing as possible. Shop­pers
do not have to make any
purchases in order to get the
free parking—ju st park, en ter
any of the local stores offering
th e free pennies, and practical­ly
all were falling in line with
th e idea, tak e out as many as
you placed in th e meter—and
th a t’s it.
, It also was pointed o u t th a t
through the borough parking
lot, located adjacent to th e Rec­ord-
Express building, shoppers
can obtain the cheapest parking
in the county-two hours for a
nickel.
With Christmas savings
checks distributed la st week,
local reta ile rs reported Christ­mas
shopping getting off to a
mighty good s ta rt here.
Street Decorations
The lighted stars, which have
featured the Christmas decora­tions
along Main and Broad
Streets for many years, were
being put up this week and
were lighted for the first time
early Monday evening.
The decorations, which this
year include bright red and
silver tinsel around the stan d ­ards
in the Square, will be
completed today, Ed Pelger, in
charge of th e work, declared.
Firemen To Sell Trees
Eric Buckley, Jr., chairman
, of the committee in charge, al­so
announced th is week th a t
Lititz firemen again will be
selling Christmas trees, s ta rt­ing
Saturday, December 6.
Trees will be displayed in the
former Acme store property,
adjoining the Lititz Theatre.
Coitfracl'or To Be
Reimbursed For Line
Robert Balmer, local contrac­tor,
will be reimbursed by the
borough for a portion of the
coat of laying a water line from
New Street to a point near the
Rome road.
Council said Balmer Installed
a 12-inch water line. An eight-inch
line would have been suffi­cient,
council noted, and moved
to reimburse Balmer the differ­ence
in cost on a pro rated con­nection
basis.
The 12-inch line is la rg e r
than needed to serve a develop­ment
in th e are a and as users
connect to th e line, Balmer will
receive a certain reimbursement
figure.
. Borough Patrolmen
Finish FBI School
Three Lititz Borough Police­men
received Certificates of
Achievement a t a banquet a t the
Warwick House Tuesday for
completion of an FBI Training
School course in law enforce­ment.
The officers are Patrolmen
Howard Dissinger,. George C.
Hicks and H. Lloyd Long.
Training sessions were held
in Ephra ta and sponsored by
E p h ra ta Borough Police. Speak­er
a t the banquet meeting was
Special Agent Charles E. Genley
of the FBI’s Philadelphia office
who presented the certificates.
Borough Council will probe
the cost and size aspects of
building a public swimming
pool a t a meeting called for
Monday, Dec. 15.
Council Tuesday night de­cided
it will interview qualified
persons in the swimming pool
construction and operation
field in an effort to get pertin­ent
facts and figures on a pool
for Lititz.
Three persons will be select­ed
from various firms to sit
down with council and discuss
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Mrs. Mary Longenecker
Taught School 35 Years
Mrs. Mary E. Longenecker, a
teacher for more th an 35 years
and th e mother of F ra n k H.
Longenecker, local school di­rector,
with whom she lived,
died th is morning a t 2:15 a.m.
a t the Lancaster General Hos­pital.
She was eighty-five and
was th e widow of Abram S.
Longenecker, who for many
years was principal of th e L it­itz
Borough Schools.
Mrs. Longenecker was strick­en
ill Sunday when she was re ­moved
to the hospital. After
remaining in a coma for two
days she had shown temporary
improvement.
She tau g h t school before and
a fte r h e r marriage. She also
served several years as a house
mother a t Stevens Trade
School, Lancaster, and th e
Loysville Lutheran Orphanage,
Loysville, Pa. She was born a t
Boiling Springs.
She is survived by two sons:
Dr. Herbert E. Longenecker,
vice president of the University
of Illinois, and Frank, this
borough, in addition to five
grandchildren.
She was one of a family of
ten, of which four, sisters and
three brothers still survive.
One brother, Jacob Herr, was
former superintendent of the
Lititz Gas Co.
Presents Concert
James T. White
On Dean's List
James T. White, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Z. White, 71
E. F ront St., has been named
to the Dean’s List of H onor Stu­dents
at Elizabethtown College.
Dean Roy McCauley announc­ed
the d ean ’s list which includ­ed
White, a second .semester
junior majoring in history.
Miss Mildred Young
Concert By
Miss Young
December 4
Music levers will have an op­portunity
tOj.enjoy an unusual
Christmas program to be pre­sented
by Mlildred Young,
mezzo-soprano, December 4 a t
7:30 p.m. in Moravian Fellow­ship
Hall.
The best in Christmas music,
Christmas carols and Christmas
legends are combined to create
“The Magic of Christmas.”
Miss Young, a gradua te of
th e Ju illia rd school of music
in New York City, is well known
in th e field of oratorio, concert
and radio having appeared with
the N.B.C. Symphony Orchestra
under the baton of Arturo Tos­canini
arid th e New York Phil­harmonic.
During the war years Miss
Young entertained troops in
Africa, India and Arabia and
upon her re tu rn spent three
years singing for Veterans in
the Veterans Htospitals through­out
the country.
Resuming her concert career
she has appeared in recital at
colleges and for organizations
throughout the East and
Middle-West winning th e ac­claim
of critics for her out­standing
artistry.
Miss Young will he accom­panied
by Mrs. Kenneth Wit-myer.
FARM SOCIETY
TO VISIT NEW YORK
Farm Society No. 1 will tak e
a bus trip on Saturday to New
York City where they will visit
the United Nations and Radio
City.
the pool proposition. Council,
as a body, will sit as a swim­ming
pool committee to deter­mine
the facts.
The meeting is designed to
guide council in fu rth e r con­sideration
of a pool.
Four main items will be
analyzed. They are:
What size pool would he
needed to meet the require­ments
of the Lititz community?
How much would it cost 1(
build, maintain and operate the
pool?
What type of materials
would be best suited for con­struction
?
What charges would the
various firms make for serv­ices?
Council said many other
questions will be posed during
the session, pivoting around
the above four questions.
The meeting is primarily a
fact-finding meeting afte r
which council will decide
whether to build a pool. If
they decide to do it, the voters
already have empowered them
to borrow funds for the con­struction.
2 KiÜed
In Collision
A t
ALL ABOARD FOR THE BALL GAME
Clay
Warren H. Kulp, 57, of
Lititz R. D. 4, was one of two
men killed in a violent two-car
collision on Route 322 in
Clay shortly a fte r 8 p. m. Wed­nesday.
Two injured include George
William Reed, 47, of Roths-ville,
who is a patient in the
E p h ra ta Community Hospital
suffering from a fra ctu re of the
rig h t hip, lacerations of the
forehead and possible internal
injuries.
Also killed in the crash was
Dennis J. Fassnacht, 19 of
Reamstown, while a passenger
in F assna cht’s car, Barbara
Knoll, 15, of Stevens, R. D. 1,
is in a serious condition in the
E p h ra ta Hospital. She sus­tained
a depressed fra ctu re of
the skull and underwent an
emergency operation shortly
a fte r her arrival in the hospi­tal.
Her condition was rep o rt­ed
as satisfactory yesterday.
The collision occurred a t the
intersection of the Hopeland-
Brunnerville Road. Impact of
the crash was so terrific th a t
Fassna cht’s car, which had
been traveling east, rebounded
3-22 feet while Kulp’s car,
which had been going west,
ended up 74 feet east of the
point of collision.
Both cars were completely
demolished. State Police o*f
the sub-station a re continuing
th e ir investigation.
Council Reviews
Buck Sale Pact
Borough Council Tuesday re­viewed
the formal copy of a
sale agreement with Roy Buch,
Lititz R3 farmer, to purchase a
trac t west of the park.
Council said the ma tte r was
a formality. The tra c t is sought
by the borough to protect the
western Lititz watershed from
industria l or other develop­ment.
Warwick Midget Football League players
a re shown on th e ir trip to Bethlehem Satur­day
where they were th e guests of Moravian
College a t th e Moravian vs Muhlenberg foot-ball
game. Moravian upse t Muhlenberg,
30-20. I t was tlie second time th e league
tre a ted players to a college game a t th e con­clusion
of the midget season.
Land Being
Acquired At
Zartman’s
The State Fish Commission
reported “good progress” is
being made in the acquisition
of land for the proposed lake
a t Zartman’s dam, this week.
Fish Commission field work­ers
reportedly were lining up
eight of th e ten property own­ers
involved. Although no Of­ficial
announcement was made
it was indicated eight of the
ten have come to terms for
g e llin g th e ir land. ,
A commission ’ spokesman
said this week th a t it is hoped
nine of the ten property owners
will sell. If this happens, the
spokesman said, the commis­sion
won’t hesitate to condemn
the land owned by S. Gerald
Darlington in order to build
the lake.
Darlington earlier this weelt
said he will oppose th e sale
of his land. He said the Com­mission
wants a portion of his
land which ruin farming opera­tions
on some 75 acres of land.
The Commission spokesman
estimated th a t only 15 acres of
land was actually involved. He
said Darlington was contacted
by the Commission and wanted
“to much money” .
Negotiations were then con­tinued
with other landowners
and if th e Commission can se-other
nine, the spokesman said
cure sales agreements from the
he felt it
condemn Darlington’s land.
Darlington, a Conestoga Val­ley
Assn, director in charge
of the n orthern county are a de­velopment,
rents a portion of
his land to th e Speedwell Forge
Club, a private fishing group.
Midget Gridders Take
Trip To College Tilt
Some 110 members of \the
Warwick Midget Football
League made the league’s sec­ond
annual trip to see A college
football game Saturday when
they were the guests of Mora­vian
College a t Bethlehem.
Players, coaches and league
officials traveled by bus to the
game in which Moravian upset
Muhlenberg, 30-20. A box
lunch was taken along. The
league paid for the . bus trip
and the group 'was admitted
free through a n arrangement
made by George R. Male, a
gradua te of Moravian.
Ed Reese, president of the
league, expressed the league’s
thanks to th e college and to
local residents whose contribu­tions
to the league made the
Lititz PTA
Donates $47
To Guards
Hunters Head Up State
For Bear, Deer Season
Deer and bear h u n te rs will
begin leaving Lititz en masse
sta rtin g Friday, and head for
the woods country upstate for
the 1958 big game hunting sea­son.
H
unting clubs and individual
hunters alike were optimistic
th a t this yea r’s deer season
would provide a good kill.
Many hunters were planning to
leave Friday (today) in order
to get in a day of bear hunting
Saturday.
Deer season opens Monday.
Among the clubs from th is area
heading for th e Northern Tier
counties will be the Hershey
Hunting Club, ready for its
28th foray in quest of deer.
The club leaves Sunday for
the ir Cedar Run, Lycoming
County base. Abram R. Her­shey
is club captain. Members
who will make the trip include
Owen G. Hershey, John G.
Hershey, John Henry Hershey,
Dr. C. L. Wertsch, Roy Long,
Paul Doster, John Wagaman,
Dervin Runk, Edward Stroble,
Charles Krick, Charles Schatz-
The Lititz PTA has approved
payment of $47 toward the
purchase of uniforms for the
women school crossing guards
unit, it was announced a t th e ir
meeting la st Thursday.
Attendance plaques were
won by Miss Esthe r Eby’s kin-dergarten
class, Miss Vera
wou7d“nrr hesitate - to | Hofi manJ?grade, Mfi ssi irEi Lth eal.n dDn esmecmoyn ,ds
th ird and fourth grade and the
fifth and sixth grades of Car­los
Ziegler.
Some 1,165 fru it cakes were
sold and it was announced th a t
furtheri orders for fru it cakes
must be made before Dec. 15.
The ways and means commit­tee
of the PTA is also selling
oven savers and wooden ware.
C. F. Storti, elementary sup­ervisor
of Upper Merion School
District, was th e speaker and
he discussed th e block system
of teaching. In this system the
teacher is “ promoted” with
her class for the first several
years.
He stressed six leading
trends in education today, they
were, 1st, building, the cluster
type; 2nd, conference, teachers
with parents; 3rd, foreign lan­guages;
4 th, having specialists
to head each department; 5th,
organizational p a tte rn s; and
6th, curriculum revision.
A le tte r was read from the
Recreation Center thanking the
organization for the contribu­tion
of $35.00 for th e Hallo­ween
paintings.
Harold McCreary, th e presi­dent,
was in charge of the
meeting and the Rt. Rev. Carl
J. Helmich gave th e invocation.
Fire Co. Auxiliary
Yule Party Thursday
A Christmas party is planned
by the Lititz Fire Co. Auxili­ary
Thursday, December 4 a t
the fire house.
Members were each in stru c t­ed
to bring a gift for the grab
bag, cost of which should no;
exceed $1. The name of th e
purchaser should be included in
the gift. Refreshments will be
served with Mrs. Mary Mease
in charge.
man, Wilfred Rosenberg, and
Raymond Runk, all of Lititz.
Other members a re Roy
Hess, Manheim R l, Isaac Her­shey
and Fred Hershey, both
of Elizabethtown; John Reitz,
E p h ra ta ; E arl Laser and
Clyde Hoffer, Brnnnerville;
Stanley Weit, Hopeland and
‘Harvey Runk, Lancaster.
Members of the Four Pines
Hunting Club will leave F ri­day
(today) for th e ir P o tter
County camp. They’U hunt
hear Saturday and then Monday
swing into the deer season.
Local members o f the club
are Fred Royer, Walter Bard,
John Helter, Wallace Lausch
and Clarence Lesher. Rudy
Shirk is th e cook. Their camp
is located near Germania, Pot­te
r County.
Another group from this area:
heads for Mifflin County Sun­day
for th e deer season.
They include A rth u r Myers,
Daniel Stroud, Floyd Miley,
Raymond Book, Wilbur Miller,
John Keller, Dr. Arthur Gris­wold
and Leo Rossi.
Jayne Cees Wrap
Gifts For Needy
The Jayne Cees met on Tues­day
evening a t the home of
Mrs. Edward Growl, 513 Kis­sel
Hill Road. They wrapped
and distributed packages con­taining
socks and mittens for
needy children as th e ir Thanks­giving
project.
They will meet December
16th a t 8:30 p.m. a t th e Rec­reation
Center when they will
bring cookies which they will
distribute to the aged when
they go Christmas caroling.
They will conduct a member­ship
drive in February and in
March they will attend a pro­gram
in Home Economics a t
the U.G.I. in Lancaster.
Mrs. Crowl, the president,
i was in charge o f th e meeting.
season and the trip possible.
He sgid he was encouraged by
th e enthusiasm shown for the
program which will continue
again next year.
Bill Hershey, a member of
the Moravian team and a Lititz
High grad, greeted the visitors.
He didn’t see any action be­cause
of an injury, however.
Council Rules
Nothing Shady
On Water Leak
Water leaks can be an ex­pensive
proposition the new
proprietor of th e Park View
Hotel is learning.
Charles Wisner, who p ur­chased
the P ark View a t a re ­cent
Sheriff’s Sale appeared be­fore
Borough Council Tuesday
night to see what could be done
about a $447 water bill.
He told council he found
the bill owing and checked the
plumbing to find it in a sta te
of poor repair. Wisner asked
council if the bill could per­haps
he “ shaded” a b it since
he had incurred other heavy
and unexpected expenses since
purchasing the place.
Council ruled it favored no
“ shady” business and th e check
was accepted for deposit.
Water, Sewer Tiein
Seen Possible Uses
For 8 Inch Lines
Lititz borough has purchased
40,000 feet of eight inch pipe­line
for the rockbottom price of
$ 1.T
h a t’s right, one dollar.
Borough Council Tuesday night
agreed to purchase th e lines,
three of them in all, from
Metropolitan Light and Heat
Co.
Metropolitan hasn’t used the
lines since 1956. The purchase
was culminated a fte r nearly
a year of negotiating. Council
said it has planned no immedi­ate
u§e for the lines which
stretch from a point near th e
Oak Street pumping station to
ju st west of Longenecker’s
Church, west of town.
Purchase of th e lines came
about as a resu lt of a survey by
the Lititz Planning Commis­sion.
Last November the Plan­ning
Commission and council
learned the lines were no long­er
in use.
J. Robert Snyder, then a
member of the planning com­mission,
conducted a series of
tests on the pipes and said
they seemed to be in good con­dition.
At th a t time the borough was
considering the lines as a pos­sible
link into the water of
sewage systems. The lin.es for­merly
carried gas. I t would be
Rothsvilie
Midget Grid!
Team Feted
Members of th e Warwick
League* champion football
team, the Rothsvilie Lions,
were guests of honor a t a din­ner
sponsored by th e Warwick
Twp. Lions Club Tuesday.
Bernie Rider, head football
coach a t Warwick High School,
was th e speaker. He pointed
out th a t several members of
this yea r’s football team s ta rt­ed
in the midget ranks.
The Lions club gave each
¡joy a certificate of achieve­ment
for winning the champ­ionship
and also an 8x10 team
picture. Robert Rosenberg
showed films from various
games played this year.
Head coach of the Rothsvilie
team was Whitey Marks. The
assistants were Warren Beit-tenmiller,
Claude Young and
Marlin Irwin. Several mem­bers
of the Lititz Lions Club
attended the meeting.
Miss Snyder, Keehn
Win Youth Awards
Miss Floy Snyder and Tom­as
Keehn were named Boy and
Girl of th e Month for Novem­ber
a t an assembly program
a t Warwick High School Tues­day.
Miss Snyder, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Elam B. Snyder, Lit­itz
R l, is a member of Middle
Creek Church of th e Brethren
where she teaches in the Sun­day
School and is church
chorister and assistant choris­te
r of the youth fellowship.
She is a member of the high
school glee club, g irl’s trio, and
a member of the county chorus.
Miss Snyder is also on the year­book
staff, had a p a rt in the
senior play and was made a
National Honor Society member
as a junior. An honor student
she is also a member of the
teenage book club.
Keehn, son of Mr. and Mrs.
George L. Keehn, 30 E. Mar­ket
St., is a member of Lititz
Moravian Church. He plays in
th e ehiureh’s trombone choir,
the Sunday school orchestra
and sings in th e church choir.
A member of th e glee club
and high school orchestra and
band he also had the leading
male role in the senior play.
He was a member of tb e dis­tric
t band the All-State Barid
Second Avenue Now
A Through Street
Most of Second Avenue was
made a through stree t at a
meeting of Borough Council
Tuesday night..
Council said stop signs will
be placed on all streets in te r­secting
Second Avenue except
Broad Street.. T h e re Broad re­mains
the through stree t. The
move was seen expediting tr a ­ffic
on Second Avenue..
and the county band and orch­estra.
Both are members of the
senior class and are 17 years
old. Plates emblematic of
th e ir selection were presented
a t the assembly program.'
possible, the borough said, to
tie them in with the water or
sewage system.
Were they to be utilized for
water it was felt th e lines
would aid in solving some low
pressure spots in the current
water system.
The line was built in 1929
and used by Metropolitan until
1956. Three eight-inch pipes
run from near Oak Street
across Main, along Forney
Drive, across Marion to Second
Avenue to Spruce Street and
paralled to Orange Street to a
point ju st west of Longeneck­e
r’s Church.
A fourth line which travels
the same route is owned by
Southern Pipeline Co.
OK Bids On
Bandshell
Area Work
Work will begin next week
on improving the bandshell
area of Lititz Springs Park.
Contract No. 5, the fifth
phase of park improvements,
has been awarded to D. M.
Stolzfus ft Son, Talmage, a t
a cost of $9,740.
It calls for removing certain
trees, grading and paving the
bandshell seating area, install­ing
drainage lines, and repairs
to the bandshell.
Repairs, J. M. Leed of the
p ark committee said, would in­clude
the present wood plank
floor with concrete and using
a masonry facing in place of
wood which is rotten.
Funds collected during the
recent park improvements
drive will be used to pay for
this phase of the work. The
work will be done over the win­te
r with the completion date set
as May 15, 1959.
Miss Armold
Exonerated
In Accident
State Police and the district
attorney’s office have freed
Anna M'arie Armold, sixteen,
Lititz R2, of blame in the auto­mobile
acident which took the
life of her sister, Mary Ellen,
thirteen.
Diet. Atty. William C. Storb
said a conference with State
Trooper John P. Motway who
investigated the crash resulted
in exonerating Miss Armold.
Mary Ellen died Nov. 15
when an auto driven by her sis­ter
struck a culvert near the
Hiram Graybill farm on a town­ship
road north of the borough.
Anna Marie, seriously injured
in the crash, was a patient a t
Lancaster General Hospital un­til
her discharge Saturday.
BOY AND GIRL OF MONTH
Thomas Keehn, receives plate emblematic of his selection as
Boy of the Month, from Herb Kraybill. At le ft is Miss Floy
Snyder, chosen Girl of th e Month.