Lititz Record Express

              Stores Open Thursday For Red Tag Days Sale
What most children learn
by doing is how to drive
their parents crazy. The Lititz Record - Express
Serving The Warwick Union Area For Nearly A Century
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83rd Year Es tab lish ed April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with The L ititz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, January 28, 1960 7 cents a Copy; $3.00 per y e a r by mail
within L a n c a s te r County: S3.50 elsewhere. No. 41
Add Extra pqq| Decision Put Up To The Tax Payers
Hours For
Big Event
Two Shopping Nights I
Feature Annual
January Sale
Lititz three-day Red Tag
bonanza opens today (Thurs-clay)
at local stores.
The majority of Lititz stores
will discard their normal
Thursday closing hours to tack
another day on the annual J a n ­uary
Red Tag event, most
stores keeping open until 9 p.m.
today (Thursday.)
Addition of the Thursday
hours extends the sale to three
days and two nights as most
stores will also be open until
9 p.m. Friday.
As in past years'merchants
have marked down regular
Stock for the Red Tag’ event,
clearing the shelves and racks
for new merchandise.
Advertisements of the Red
Tag bargains appear in this
edition of the Record along
with store hours of the re­spective
merchants.
A poll of merchants indicat­ed
these stores wbuld maintain
Thursday night hours for shop­pers:
Armold Jeweler, Beck Bros.
Furniture, Benner Pharmacy,
Charlotte’s Apparel Shop, Fick-
.inger Jeweler, Flanagan Ladies
Shop, Gearhar t’s Store, Glass-myer’s
Cut Rate, Harris Var ie­ty
Store, J . B. Hess Men’s
Store.
Kilbourne TV Store, Kreider
Bros. TV, Kreider Hardware,
McElroy Pharmacy, H. K. Neff,
Clothier, Nick’s Cut Rate, Pro­gressive
Stores, Pick- I t Gift
Shop, Sharp’s Photo Service,
Spacht’s Furniture Store, P. T.
Trimble Hardware. Western
Auto Store and Zartman’s
Store.
Others will have Thursday
hours during. Hie afternoon.
COOKIE SALE TIME P o l l
1 ax
Of Per
Payers
Capita
Would
THESE “YOUNGSTERS" LIKE THE REC, TOO
Influence Decision
à
I Council To Draft
Letter At Special
Meeting
Lititz per capita tax payers
! will be polled to determine
| whether they are willing to
underwrite a "deficit if the
borough builds a swimming
pool and if the pool would
lose money.
i The decision was made Tues-
Mrs. James: H. Verger, 105 West i eel Ave.. Rolling llill
Neighborhood Cookie Sale Chairmen, nod Miss Anne Gray Gard­ner,
eight, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Gardner, 1 0 3
AVest End Ave., stage a scene they hope will be repeated many
times during the annua) Girl Scout Cookie Sale which gets
underway January 30 . Anne is a member of Brownie Troop
6 9 and promised to return to Mrs. Y e rg cr to make the cookie
sale enactment realistic.
Scout Cookie Sale
Starts January 30
Water Bids
! Hold Key To
Rate Status
Cit s Told
xes May,
. lot Change
Borough Council Tuesday of­ficially
raised the property tax
a mill and the per capita tax
$2.50 for I9 60, declining to say
whether it could reduce taxes
next year.
The action puts millage at 1 5
and per capita taxes at $7.50 a
heda. Three citizens, who at ­tended
council meeting, inquir­ed
whether they could ex p e c t
the added taxes to be dropped
next year since the borough
said it needed the money for
■ non-recurring expenses.
Tine citizens, John Stauff­er,
1 1 2 E . Alain St., Ernest
R. Johnson, 1 1 2 AAr. Orange
St., and Stephen J . Palkovie,
6 2 0 Kissel Hill Rd., discuss­ed
with council I be money
earmarked fo r a new jail
($ 5 ,0 0 0 ,) and for a new police
cruiser and dump truck
($ 7 ,0 0 0 .)
T h ey sought to determine
whether next year, when those
expenses won’t be recurring,
council would reduce taxes.
Council President AV. Roy
Enck, following discussion,
told them that it was something
that couldn’t be determined un­til
next year when the borough
sits down to draw up a budget,
on the 15 mills and $7.50 head
made a tentative budget, based
no the 15 mills and -7.5 0 head
tax, permanent for 19 60.
The Girl Scout Cookie Sale
will open on Saturday, January
30th, according to Mrs. James
Yerger, in charge of the sales.
The goal of each scout is
twenty-five boxes but no orders
are to be taken before Satur­day.
The delivery date will be
March oth. .Mrs. Donald Ran-nels
will assist Mrs. Yerger.
qhere will be four varieties
of cookies, butter flavored
creme-filled, chocolate drops
with coconut, and chocolate
Two Appeal For
Permits From
Zoning Board
Two appeals for building
nermits will be beard Tuesday,
Feb. 2. by the Zoning Board of
A djustments.
Gary L. Zong, 23 7 E. Lin­coln
Ave., is seeking a permit
to install a barbershop at 1 7
West Orange Street. The area
is zoned residential and Zong
seeks permission to install the
shop.
Business ventures in areas
zoned residential must conform
to the category of “customary
incidental home occupation,’’
according to the Zoning Code.
Zong now operates a barber
shop at 2 2 AV. Orange St.
Also appealing is Rufus K.
Burkholder, 205 Front St.,
who wants a permit to sub­stitute
a non-conforming use by
substituting an apartment for
a grocery store. Zong s case
is scheduled for 7 :3 0 p.m. and
Burkholder’s for 7 :5 0 p.m.
BOROUGH TO AGAIN
S ELL SHADE TREES
Lititz will again offer shade
trees at bargain prices to resi­dents.
The borough agreed to pur­chase
trees grown at Rockview
Penitentiery and resell them
at from $7.50 to $10, planted
in place, to residents.
Miss Huebener Replies
To Story On ‘Ole Days
mint. The price of a box is
forty-five cents except the cho­colate
mint which is fifty cents.
The troop will receive five
cents of every box sold and the
remainder wil be used for the
camp program, operating ex­penses,
reserve fund, and speci­al
equipment.
The cookie chairmen of the
various troops are .as follows:
Troop 203, Airs. Arlene David­son:
Troop 69, Mrs. Edward
Rosenquist; Troop 19 9, Airs.
Robert Snyder; Troop 24, Airs.
IVIargaret Rice; Troop 198/
Mrs. Donald Fisher; Troop 14,
Mrs. Jay IVIiller.
Troop 8 0, Airs. Howard
Good; Troop I I S , Mrs. Rich­ard
Weik; 'Troop 15, Mrs.
Richard Oberlin; Troop 16,
"Mrs. Paul Ibach; Troop 8 7,
Mrs. Charles Gaus; Troop 9S,
Mrs. Eugene Roth; Troop 141,
Mrs. Robert Will; Troop 16 3,
Airs. Hayden Royer.
Troop 191, Mrs. Harrv Essig;
Troop 2 00, Mrs. Albert Ebbert;
Troop 235, Mrs. Ear l Hollings­worth;
Troop 215, Mrs. Harold
Zanders; Troop 17, Mrs. Ro­bert
Dull; Troop 122, Airs. Ira
Hall: Troop 116, Mrs. Clyde
Hendricks.
Union Reelects
Rearich Prexy
Thomas P. Rearich, 25 E.
Lincoln Ave., was reelected
president and business manager
of Local 272, American Bakerv
& Confectionery W o r k e r s at
the Wilbur Chocolate Co.
It is his 2 0th term in office.
Other officers named by the
union include lone Hemming,
financial secretary; John M.
Miller, recording secretary; Le­roy
Sechrist, trustee; Sechrist,
Hemming and Clarence Hover,
confernece board And John
Mischler, sergeant at arms.
Lititz Borough will move in-t
othe bidding phase of a $425,-
000 water imprvements pro­gram
which council hopes will
be possible without raising
water rates, it was decided
Tuesday.
Council decided to advertise
for bids for constructing the
major improvements to the
borough’s system after Council­man
D. Curtis Amidon reques t­ed
that bids be asked on sever­al
sizes of storage tanks.
Amidon said Iris idea was
to ask for bids on storage
tanks of 2 million, 1 $2 mil­lion
a ml 1 million gallons.
Ho said under tire proposed
financial setup, lie would
feel existing water revenues
tveuicl be more likely to take
rare of bond redemption
without a possible water rate
increase if a smaller storage
facility Avere bui li.
Estimated cost of a 2 mil­lion
gallon tank is $1 05,000.
He said if it were practical
from an engineering standpoint
iie would favor the smaller
storage capacity rather than
risk raising water rates.
Council agreed to write the
smaller tank specifications into
the call for bds. Estimated costs
of the borough’s improvements
have risen from $390,0 0 0 when
it was first proposed to $425,-
000.
Council will get its first idea
of actual costs when bids are
opened.
day by borough council which
set a special meeting for Sat­urday,
Feb. 13 to draft the
letter.
Council's action followed in­troduction
of the swimming
pool subject by Councilman D.
Curtis Amidon who said the
question has been raised thal
the people who voted a pooL
didn’t understand that it
might result in a tax increase.
He said he favored a poll
whirl] would point out the
obligation of the ta x pay­ers.
He suggested a le tter
which “would say a pool is
the responsibility of the
borough and any deficit i s ,
a responsibility of the tax
payers.”
Council President AV. Roy
Enck asked Amidon where he
felt the tax money should
come from if a pool is built
and a deficit incurred. Amidon
replied “I would lean toward
a head tax.”
In broaching the pool sub­je
c t Amidon said be felt the
borough council was obliged
by the vote of approval in
1958 to “ have a 19 60 expres­sion
of pool desire.”
He said the borough must
make it plain that if money is
lost on the pool then the tax
payers must foot the bill.
Council agreed the possibility
of tax increases wasn’t made
clear on the ballot in 19 5 8.
Councilman Roy S. Reiden-bach,
reaffirming that he
wasn’t opposed to a pool as
such, defended the previous
council’s reticence to build a
pool by saying “We conscien­tiously
couldn’t see where we
could build a pool and saddle
the taxpayers with a deficit.”
Amidon agreed it must be
established whether tax pay­ers
understand that fact of
pool life and suggested the lat ­ter.
Councilman C. Wendell
Hower urged that when letters
are sent out the decision be
abided by, one way or another.
Council unanimously agreed
to draft the letter at the
special meeting Feb. 13.
Youngsters of another era, members of
Hk' liitiiv, Senior Citizens Club, donors of
S50 (o the Roeiealion Center Building Fund,
are shown with Airs. Forbes Emsweller
(loll) who is accepting the contribution
check. Presenting the check is Morris Stur­gis
while Ha rry Lowe and Mrs. Sallie Tern-
Building Fund Gets
‘Widow’s Mite’ $50
pleton display their membership renewal
cards. It was the Senior Citizens .second
donation to the building fund. In addition
all 5 6 members of the group purchased 1 9 6 0
membership cards, a 1 0 0 per cent solicita­tion.
HOSPITAL PATIENT
Mrs. Robert Thompson is a
patient at the Lancaster Gen­eral
Hospital.
Date Remains
Elusive On Main
St. Rebuilding
The State Highways De­partment
will rebuild East
Main Street this year, period.
That was the report of Bo r ­ough
Manager David J . Bauer
to borough council Tuesday.
Bauer made a trip to Harris­burg
in an effort to get a
timetable on the project. He
said the best he could learn
was that it will be done this
year.
Meanwhile the council was
advised that the water lin e im­provements
being made on
East Main Street are about
seven days behind the revised
schedule presented to council.
Council was told that about
seven working days remain ,to
PTA
Date
Sets
For
Barbecue
The Parent Teachers Asso­ciation
wil hold a chicken
barbecue on Saturday, Febru­ary
27 according to the an­nouncement
made at the meet­ing
held on Thursday evening-in
the elementary school build­ing
by Omar Bucher, chairman
of the committee in charge.
Bruce Wike, vice-president,
was in charge of the meeting
and the Rev. James Shannon
gave the Invocation. Airs. J a ­mes
Cleland announced the
room of George Remetz sold
the most fruit cakes.
The awards were given as
folows: Aliss Jan e t Farrell,
kindergarten; Airs. Mabel Gri­mes,
first and second grades;
Mrs. Iris Hoffman, third and
fourth grades; Aliss Hazel Gar­ner,
fifth and sixth grades.
The program featured the
services of the County Office
run the main line to Locust and refreshments were served
Street. ¡ in the school cafeteria.
A 2 0 th Century “widow’s
mite” , a $50 contribution to
the building fund of the pro­posed
Rev. I. Walton Bobst
Recreation Center, has been
made by the Senior Citizens of
Lititz.
The contribution was turned
over to the center last -week;
and was the second $50 con­tribution
the 5 6 members of
the group has made from their
meager incomes fr om pensions,
Morris K. Sturgis, Lititz R l ,
treasurer and the only officer
of the “ oyer-6 0 youngsters” ,
revealed the money had been
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(E dito r's Note; Aliss Mary
A. Huebener has taken
good-natured issue with
John L. Boyd’s feature story
of last week, in which lie
concluded th a t the best
thing about the good old
days was the food. This
week Aliss Huebener, rising
to challenge his observa­tions,
has written the fol­lowing
article for which we
thank her.)
Being challenged to write a
reply to the article on the
“Good Ole Days, that appeared
in last week’s issue of th e
R ECORD-EXPRES S , X would
like to add a few more things
tha t ' we did without at the
turn of the Century or earlier,
to those mentioned in the
article in question.
For one thing, we did with­out
airplanes bursting in mid-
_air; or crashing into mountain
sides; or diving into the ocean
or the Gulf of Mexico; with
the loss of all on board. We
did without the crowded high­ways;
and without trying to
meet the goals set for traffic
deaths over holiday wee
We did without the
and jar r ing and the
from smelly exhausts (
lines of cars and trucks
endlessly down Alain i
In the “Good Ole U n -
we did without the incon­venience
of having’ eh iiiii
power fail — sometimes for
several days at a lime —
leaving many homes with­out
heat or light or moans
of cooking.
In the days of coaloil lights
and “ free water” (from wells
or pumps) there was no need
for tearing up Main Street to
lay a series of new utility
lines for water and gas, and
possibly electric conduits;
leaving the street for an in­determinate
period with hol­lows
and gullies, so that pass­ing
motorists are reminded of
the old rhyme:
“Hilly up and hilly down,
Th a t’s the way to Schaef-ferstewn.”
Then, too, in the days be­fore
the common use of the
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Marwick Driver Education students will
have benefit of this new Dodge Dart, donat­ed
to tile school by Hie .1. B. /a r tm an g a r­age.
Glenn Zart man (center) presents the
keys to the ca r to High School Principal N.
J , Fuhrroan while "Driver Education teacher
George R. Alale watches. E a ch ye a r th e
school receives free a driver education ve­hicle,
donors of the ca r rotating among’ the
/a r tm a n garage, Lititz Springs Garage and
Keller Bros.
Borough Advised
To Tighten Up
Fines Receipts
Auditor Wilbur B. ’Miller
found the borough’s books for
1959 in good order, but recom­mended
to council Tuesday
that it beef up its internal con­trol
over monies collected in
fines.
The borough collected $1,-
328 in fines on motor cc-di-parking
meter and certain cri­minal
prosecutions during
1 959. Miller told c o u n c i l De-cause
of poor internal control
on fines it was impossible to
tell how many fines were in the
justices of peace office and how
many had been turned over to
the borough.
He said the borough has
“such good internal control
that it is one point that ap­pears
to be weak.” Burgess
Benjamin G. For rest said he
would look into the matter.
Lititz collected $888 in motor
cede fines, $290 for meter vio­lations
and $150 from disorder­ly
cases.
ATTEND PAR LEY
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Douple
spent Saturday in Bethlehem,
Pa., where Mr. Douple attend-f
d the Eastern District Board
meeting of the Moravian
Church,
City Authority
Dumps Refuse
Hauling Plan
Lancaster Area Refuse
Authority has discarded a plan
for offering trash collection
containers to county boroughs,
council was told Tuesday.
The Lancaster plan would
have put containers in each
county town into which refuse
would be dumped and then
hauled to the authority’s land-till.
Lititz was the only bor­ough
in the county which ex­pressed
an interest in the plan
and it was dropped.
Council was told that it
means the future of trash col­lection
her eremains hazy.
Collector Leon Himmelberger
has room at his landfill to
handle about a year ’s more
collection of refuse.
Then he must either find
a new landfill site or cease
service. Previously Plimmel-berger
had expressed willing­ness
to cooperate in the auth­ority
service by hauling trash
he collected to the containers.
collected with the possibility
of the oldsters holding a so­cial
event or taking a trip.
The group decided, how­ever,
that the building iuud
was more important, Stur­gis
said. Unlike other so­cial
groups the Senior Citi­zens
have no (lues and stage
no money-raising projects.
All donations are voluntary
from what limited incomes
the members have.
In presenting the check to
Mrs. Forbes Emsweller, advis­or
to the group and center
board member, Sturgis said
“We hope this donation toward
the new Recreation Center
building- fund will show our in­terest
in the project and will
also aid in stimulating a
greater interest to other organ­izations
and adults in this area
to participate.”
Mrs. Emsweller, who in
April of 19 54 helped to or­ganize
the group which has
grown from seven to 5 6 mem-
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Street Designated
As Loading Zone
Parking on the south side
of Kleine (Klein or Kline) St.
was restricted by boro council
Tuesday.
The street will be made a
loading zone on the south side
adjoining Wilbur Chocolate Co.
from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday
thruogh Friday. Borough coun­cil
couldn’t agree on the spell­ing
of the street name but de­cided
the technicality wouldn’t
prevent them from enforcing
the new law.
BITZER HOSPITALIZED
Graybill Bitzer was taken
sick w h ile a tten d in g a candy
Convention at Philadelphia and
was taken to the Presbyterian
Hospital in that city.
Citizens To
Organize In
Warwick T.
Plans for forming a citizens
committee interested in the
betterment of “Warwick Town­ship
are underway.
Raymond C. Groff, Lititz R4,
a member of the Warwick
School Board, said a meeting
of citizens interested in civic
improvements in the township
will be called in the latter part
of February.
He said there Inis never
been any organization in the
township to tackle various
problems which arise. An ex­am;
le of such problems, he
said, was Hie lack of main­taining
crossing guards for
school children.
Crossing guards are avail­able
on a voluntary basis, he
said, but the arrangement has
proven unsatisfactory. A bid
by township residents to have
the township pay crossing-guards,
Groff said, was turned
down bv the board of super­visors.
A date and place of meeting-will
be announced, he said, and
any interested citizens are in­vited
to attend.
Brunnerville Troop
Donates To Center
A Brunnerville Brownie
Scout Troop has made- a - $5
contribution to the building
fund for a new Recreation
Center.
The Troop, number 95, is
led by Airs. Donald Weaver
and Mrs. Charles Deveaux.
RICHARDSON IL L
Howard Richaidson was, tak­en
to the Lancaster General
Hospital on Saturday suffering
with plural pneumonia.
Mothers Solicit Polio
Funds In Area Tonight
“The Mothers’ Drive on
Polio” will be held this eve­ning
(Thursday) and Mrs.
Robert Reidenbaugh. local
chairman, has named the fol­lowing
captains and workers,
with Airs. John Helter and
Mrs. Horace Bleacher as co­directors.
Airs. George For -
ry, capt. Harriet Landis, Lu­cinda
and Lillie Weiler, Alary
Seibert, Lynn Roth, Mrs, Carl
Risser.
Mrs. Paul Roos, capt. Pa­tricia
Roos, Susan Kauffman,
Airs. Raymond Pettyjohn
Capt., Mrs. William Spacht,
Mrs. Lloyd Shaeffer, John
Shaeffer, Warren Pettyjohn;
Mrs. Russell Leed, Capt,, Tri-na
Leed, Mrs. Carl Ritter;
Airs. Omar Bucher, capt., Airs.
Fred Reubman, Airs. F it..
Weigand, Mrs. Walter Kis ­singer,
Ann Gerhart, Mike Al-lebach.
Mrs. Glenn Knight, Capt.,
Janice Knight, Sandra Ditzler;
Mrs. Helter Capt., Delilah and
Jackie Nissley, John Helter,
Charles Hornberger, Phillip
Hess, Karen Nagle, Fay Ann
Burkholder, James Koch, B a r ­bara
Zander, Bar ry Martin,
Mrs. Melvin Koch. Midge Good,,
Barbara Foreman, Airs, John
| Furlow, Nancy Shelly, Marcia
Male, Judy Ehrhar t, Debbie
Ecker t, Barbara Elliot.
Mrs. Bleacher, Capt., Ella
Stauffer, Florence Stauffer,
Alice Stauffer, Mrs. Robert
Grube, Airs. John Todd, Mrs.
George Remetz, Mrs. Joseph
Brubaker; Robert Pfautz,
Capt., Miss Joanne Snayeiy,
Capt.. Mrs. Robert Herzer,
Mrs. Robert Kroeck, Miss San­dra
Ilyle.
Airs. Harry Way. Airs. Nick
Rosenberg, Mrs. George Kal-enick,
Mrs. Harold McCreary,
Mrs. Joseph Snyder, Mrs. Al­vin
Slater, Mrs. IVL C. Demmy,
1 Airs. Gordon Trump, Miss Car­ol
Snavelv, Mrs. William Fry.
Mrs. Reidenbaugh, Capt.,
Mrs. Charles Wagaman, Airs,
John Stoner J r ., Mrs. Eugene
Roth, Brenda Roth, Mrs. Don­ald
Ross, Mrs. Dervin Runk,
Barney and Betsey Kauffman,
Airs. Franklin Cassel, John
Cassel, Sylvia Roth. Airs. B. C.
Howell, Mrs. Ray Herr, Airs.
C. H. Nissley, Susan Wolf,
Mrs. Robert Hanna, Barbara
and Meryl Klopp, Mary Lou
and Ronald Nelson,