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(C o n so lid a te d w ith T h e L ititz R e co rd , 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday March 16, 1961 7 c e n ts a Copy; $3.00 per y e a r b y m a ll
w ith in L a n c a s te r C o u n ty ; $3.50 elsewhere. 12 Pages No. 48
Further Delay In Hammer Creek Dam Decision
Five File
For School
Board Posts
Mrs. Carolyn Shank First
Woman To Seek
Post Here
One local political b a tt le be­came
more intensified while
Another evaporated into thin
air in the final rush to file
nominating petitions a t the
Court House ended Monday
evening.
The contest taking th e cen­te
r of the Warwick political
stage was th a t in which five
candidates, including one wom­an,
a re seeking the two Re­publican
nominations as Wa r ­wick
Union school directors.
The lone woman, th e first
member of the dis staff side to
seek election . here, is Mrs.
Carolyn P. Shank, wife of Dr.
Jame s P. Shank, who feels the
influence of a woman is need­ed
on the all-man board at
this time. Mrs. Shank is the
first to file despite th a t re ­peated
efforts have been made
in past years to induce a wom­an
to run for. this office.
Others filing for the school
board posts are Rev. Robert
W. Ette r, of Brickerville; Rod­ney
C. Welsh and Ra lp h L.
Sloat, this borough, and Dr.
Edward Kowalewski, of Roths-ville.
Sloat, anothe r surprise
candidate, is aff iliated with
Linden Hall, and is a former
high school principal.
Dr. Ar th u r Griswold is the
only candidate for burgess
whose name will ap p e a r on the
ballot despite a move over
-»he past week-end to induce
Dr. Chester Wertsch to run.
A petition for Dr. Wertsch
was circulated b u t Was not
filed when he declined Mon­day.
A contest which h a s devel­oped
in the borough is th a t
in which thre e candida tes are
running for the two Jus tice
of the Peace positions to be
filled. They a re Ju s tic e of the
Peace Paul F. Diehm, Harold
Kauffman, local re ta ile r , and
' C. William Dussinger. ,,
In the first ward, Les ter E.
Haines, former borough police
officer, and Borough Officer
Howard Dissinger both seek
the position of constable.
W arw ick C o n te st
Another interes ting contest
has developed in Warwick
Township over the single posi­tion
on the board of super­visors
to be filled. Raymond
Hess, present se cretary of the
board who is seeking re-elec­tion,
is being opposed by- Isaac
Stoner, with Sol Strohm back­ing
Hess and Art Adams back­ing
Stoner.
TO SPÉAK HERE
FOR THE CENTER BUILDING FUND!
i,uo Derek, left, a c tiv itie s ch a irm a n of th e R e c re a tio n
C en ter, is shown a ccep tin g a check fo r $300, p roceeds from
th e re c e n t W a rw ick T e ach o rs-S tate Police b e n e fit game, from
Ray Adelizzi, coach or th e Warwick T each ers team.
Students Use Airplane
And Fire Truck In
Youth Day Campaigns
An airplane dropping leaf­lets
and a borough fire tru ck
adorned with political posters
were the unusual attention —
compellers -used Wednesday as
Warwick High School students
conducted campaigns in the
annual Youth Day Elections.
The height of the campaigns
was reached d u r in g a reg u la r ­ly-
scheduled fire drill in which
the entire s tudent body filed
outdoors. Candidates of the
Righ. P a r ty were all for the
occasion and immediately an
airplane flying overhead began
dropping leaflets in the ir be­half,
to the school grounds
below.
A moment later, a Lititz Fire
truck, decorated with political
banners endorsing the candi­da
te s of The Sensible Pa r ty
appeared on the scene and be­gan
whooping it up for the ir
candidates. Other phases of
the rally included having the ir
pictures tajien to he shown
la te r Wednesday on WGAL-TV
as well as radio interviews.
The campaigns of th e two
students tickets began Monday
and will continue r ight up to
election day, next Tuesday,
when students, providing they
have registered, will vote a t a
voting machine to be installed
in the high school lobby. Stu­d
e n t election boards, party
watchers, etc., will be on hand
to give the whole affair a ring
of reality.
Following the election the
successful candidates will spend
a day with the regularly-elect­ed
officials, getting a tas te of
what it is like to be an office
holder, Council . and school
board winners will attend
meetings .of both of these
governing boards.
The Right P a r ty ’s platform
fe a ture s reducing the voting
age to eighteen, the driving
age to 16, moving borough
offices into the old post office
building, ins talling a public
conlfort, station and, of all
things, paving, New Road Hill.
The Sensible P a r ty urges
new s tands for the new a th le ­tic
field, sh o r te r cafeteria lines,
'in s ta llmen t of milk machines,
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Will Make
Outside
Appraisal
Outside appraisers will he
sent here to re-appraise the
land needed for the proposed
Hamme r Creek Dam, Governor
Lawrence’s office this week
notified S. Gerald Darlington,
of Speedwell Forge, one of four
landowners who have to-date
refused to sign off their pro­perties.
The new appraisel is ex­pected
to be made within the
coming month but will in all
likelihood again postpone deci­sion
on the dam which was
scheduled to be announced at
a meeting of the fish commis­sion
in Ha r r i sburg this Mon­day.
In an o th e r communication
also received this week by
Darlington, Albert M. Day,
executive dire c tor of the fish
.commission, hinted th a t a d rop­off
in fishing license sales may
alter the “ entire construction
schedule” of the fish commis­sion.
The le t te r from the goveis
n o r ’s office, signed by Otis II.
Morse, secretary to the gover­nor,
reads, in part, as follows.
“ I have discussed this ma t­te
r with Albert M. Day . . .
and he tells me th a t your
suggestion of the employment
of an independent land ap­praiser
was decided upon sev ­eral
days ago and such negotia­tions
are now in progress. I
(Continued on Page 8)
Workers Spend Two D ays Digging Gas Line
Trench On Wrong Side Of Broad Street
For two whole days, the
peace of North Broad Street
was sha t te re d by the din of
air-drills as contractors for
the gas company proceeded to
dig a trench extending south­ward
from Market Street.
With the trench completed
to a point in front of the home
of Fo rme r Councilman Thomas
Steffy, work suddenly halted
late Tuesday.
And then —- to the amaz e­ment
of nearby res idents —-
early Wednesday morning the
workmen s ta r ted filling in the
trench without laying any
pipe. Several long lengths of
pipe which had been welded
together, were cut up again
and quickly hauled away.
The whole project, it then
was disclosed, was a comedy
of errors which, a lthough not
involving the borough, will
add a few more blimps to one
of the roughes t s tretches of
borough streets.
The story goes something
like this:
Wilbur Chocolate Company
has been considering ins tall­ing
gas and doing away with
coal and so began negotiations
with U.G.I. officials in Lan­caster.
Last week gas company rep­resentatives
appeared a t the
borough office and obtained
a permit to dig a trench along
Broad Street from Market to
Fro n t Street. This permit is
KINDA HART ON STREETS, AINT?
Home Ec. Girls Will
Model Easter Dresses
REV. R. E. HORNE
Woman’s Club
Easter Program
Monday Evening
The Reverend Robert Earle
Horne, of Norristown, will
speak on “Christ, and the Fine
. Ar t s ” a t the regular meeting
of the Lititz Woman ’s Club,
Monday evening a t 8 p.m. at
the General Sutter Hotel.
The lecture will be i l lu s tra t­ed
with wood carvings, c e ra ­mics
and silver pieces from
Germany, Italy, Spain and
France.'
In this collection is a bust
of Christ from Germany th a t
is over 150 years old and an
ivory crucifix from Spain
which is close to 250 years old,
and wood carvings of the
Apostles.
Along with the antique
pieces will be displayed two
modern paintings by Salvador
Dali.
Miss Mildred Young will in­troduce
Pa s to r Horne.
) UNICEF cards will again be
on display and members may
: place orders for them, i
Hostesses*will he Mrs. Rich­ard
Ailebach and Mrs. Ha rry
Six girls from th e Home
Economics Department of the
high school will model dresses
they made a t th e Woman ’s
Club ' on Monday evening at
the ir meeting. They are Sara
Steiner, Carol Beck, Ba rba ra
Johnson, Rosanna Eberly, Mary
Seibert and Sandra Risser.
This will be the 4th annual
Fashion-Sewing Contest ’ spon­sored
by the General F ed e ra ­tion
of Women’s Clubs and
the Vogue P a t t e rn Service, in
co-operation with the Woman ’s
Club Service Bure au of New
York City.
Mrs. Verne P o r te r is the
local edntest chairman and
s ta ted th a t girls from the
ninth to the twelfth grades
were eligible, all contes tants
a re required to make and mo­del
an outf it and will be ju d g ­ed
on the basis of the over-all
fashion effect; becomingness to
wearer and workmanship.
‘ The winner will be eligible
Warwick Lions
Plan Egg Hunt
T h e Warwick Township
Lions Club en te r ta in ed the
Girl Scouts, Brownies, their
leaders Miss J a n e t Gehman,
Miss Je an Seachrist, assistants,
a t the meeting held on Tues ­day
evening in the Memorial
Building. Thir ty five a ttended
the meeting.
Jim Enck of the Akron Club
showed a film of “Life in the
Rockies” . The Scouts provided
the dessert for the meal which
were many and varied all
delicious. Harold Shaak, the
president, was in charge.
A F a th e r and Son night will
be observed a t the next meet­ing
on March 2 8th. An Eas ter
Egg h u n t will be held on Sat­urday,
April 1st for the chil­dren
of the community.
to compete in the F e d e ra t io n ’s
District judging to be held la­te
r in the year and the winner
in the District may ente r the
State Competition, which of­fers
cash prizes of $10 0 and
$2 5 to the firs t and second
place winners. Mrs. P o r te r
s ta ted the object of the con­tes
t is to develop a deeper ap­preciation
of the home making
skills.
The judges for the local con­tes
t will' be Mrs. Norma de
Ellis, extension worker from
Lancaster, Mrs. Joe Bradley of
Lancaster a n d Mrs. Ba rba ra
York of Lititz, and the local
club will offer $15, $10 and
$5 to the th re e high con­testants.
Council Honors
Memory Of
Lloyd Hoffman
A resolution honoring the
memory of Chief of Police
Lloyd Hoffman was passed by
members of the Lititz Bor­ough
Council a t a special
meeting held in the borough
offices last Saturday morning-
At the same meeting, coun­cil
appointed George Hicks as
chief to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Mr. Hoffman.
Hicks had been named acting
chief the week before by Bur­gess
Benjamin Forrest.
The resolution passed reads
as follows:
With feeling of deepest re ­gret,
the Borough Council re ­cords
the passing of Lloyd J.
Hoffman, Chief of Police of
the Borough of Lititz for six
years, until his death on
March 4, 1961.
He was held in the highest
esteem by the members of the
community for his generous
action toward the people with
whom he came in contact. In
particular, the children of the
community loved him as a
friend to whom they could
turn. Pe rhaps no one in this
Borough was more widely
known and highly regarded.
Because we realize to the
fullest extent the benefits
which the community has de­rived
from the work of Lloyd
J. Hoffman, and because of
the warm personal feeling in­spired
in our he a rts by his
kindly, unselfish life; be it
RESOLVED: Tha t this tr ib­ute
to his memory be spread
upon the minutes of this
Council and th a t a copy be
sent to his widow and the
press.
W o rk ers a re seen p u ttin g th e d irt baek
in a deep tre n c h on Broad S tre e t Wednes­day
m o rn in g when it was decided th e tre n c h
n o t only was n o t in th e r ig h t place — b u t
sh o u ld n ’t have been d u g , anyway.
— Reco rd -Ex p ress P h o to .
ABC’ers Jubilant Over
Interest In Forthcoming Show
“No red-blooded re s ident of
Lititz a rea should miss “Main
3t. Minstrels” , say A.B.C. and
A.B.C.D. members who are
jubilant over the interes t being
accorded th e i r forthcoming
sjiow. Several hun d red tickets
have been sold for both F r i ­day
and Saturday nights, April
7 & 8. The club would like to
service projects òf th e Ameri­can
Business Clubs. Local re ­tailers
and businessmen have
been lending the ir suppor t to
the project in the form of pro­gram
advertising. “Many local
businessmen will get free pub­licity
in the show since it
take s place r ight in the he a r t
of Lititz” , say Don Kepner
Ask County
Refund For
Snow Removal
granted automatically to the
company on all s treets which
had not been paved within
five years, it was explained.
Ju s t what went hay-wire
between early Monday morn­ing
and late Tuesday is an­other
story — but a t th a t
time, suddenly, borough offi­cials
awoke to the realization
tha t the gas company had
dug a trench right over the
sewer main — and within a
few inches of the main, for
tha t matter.
According to borough offi­cials,
the trench should have
been dug down the west side
of the street so many feet
from the curb. An agreement
of long standing places all gas
mains on the north and west
sides of borough s treets with
other borough mains occupy­ing
the center and opposite
sides.
In this instance, gas com­pany
officials explained, t h e
company had sought to avoid
placing a high-pressure 4-inch
gas main over a smaller gas
main — and so had chosen
the other side of the s tre e t in
this instance.
Borough officials objected,
however, unless U.G.I. would
accept all responsibility for re ­opening
the street in case it
was necessary to reach bor­ough
installations. This they
refused to accept.
Wednesday morning, how­ever,
it also was disclosed th a t
the negotiations with Wilbur
had not been completed and
probably would not be for
some time to come.
The gas company then an ­nounced
it would re tu rn the
street to its former condition,
tlie dirt removed was shoveled
back and the large quantity
of pipe hauled to the scene,
was loaded into trucks and
hauled away again.
“And to th in k ,” B a r t o n
Sharp, whose store is located
on the corner, commented,
"res idents along this s tretch
of Broad Street had ju s t com­pleted
our most successful
street-cleaning project in the
borough’s history — and now
we’re sure to ’havS’ “anothe r
dust battle ahead of us .”
top the 1600 attendanc e fig- and Herb Kraybill, co-chair-ure
set by last y e a r ’s show,
“Minstrel Days” , and sugges t­ed
th a t tickets be picked up
early a t Mac’s, Glassmyer's,
ir Penn Dairies’ Neffsville
Store.
A m o n g other things, we
hope to give Lititz folks a new
¡lant on the his tory of our
town” , says Win. Scatcliard
>vho plays Ih e show’s his tori­an,
“Uncle Dryrot” . Uncle Dry-
■ot relates some his tory th a t
very few people know about
:o a little girl named Naral-gia,,
played by Joan Darling­ton.
In order 'to perfect the
jatchy minstrel numbers, mu­sical
director A1 Ebbert and
piano accompanist Mrs. James
F. Shank have been putting
in many hours practicing with
the chorus.
Proceeds from th e show will
go
men of the program commit­tee.
RETAILERS MEETING
MONDAY EVENING
The Lititz Retailers Associa­tion
will hold a meeting Mon­day
evening at 7:jB0 p.m. a t
(Reaver’s Res taurant. Filial
plans for the Sale Promotion
will be made and election of
officers will be held. All are
urged to attend in order to
make this meeting a success.
Lititz borough has filed an
application with the Lancaster
County Commissioners for a
refund of $3,800 for snow re ­moval
the past \yinter, Bor­ough
Manager Dave Bauer an ­nounced
this week.
If granted, the re fund will
do much to improve the bor­o
u g h ’s present stra ined finan­cial
s tatus. During the past
winter the borough spent ap­proximately
$7,000 for snow
removal. This does not include
the cost of spreading cinders,
etc., ■ to eliminate slippery
s tre e t conditions.
Conference Saturday
Plans also were completed
this week for the second con­ference
between borough coun-cilmen
and supervisors of
Warwick Township to consider
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Juniors At Practice
(By a m em b er of th e c a st)
At Monday’s rehe a r sa l one
of the scholarly members of
the Ju n io r class play cast sat
toward local community down and calculated th a t from
th a t time forward we have a
MORAVIAN CHOIR TO PRESENT "THE CRUCIFIXION" SUNDAY EVENING
: :-T v e c i r i * \ t ▼ ' " “ '. w y
f i i l S l I i S I s
Hiram Hammer Marks
85th Birthday
Hiram Hammer , who stays
at the Warwick House, this
borough, celebrated his 8 5tli
bir thday last Wednesday. On
Sunday he was honored a t a
bir thday d in n e r a t the home of
his granddaughte r , Mrs. Vic­tor
Rittenhouse and family in
Lancaster. His sister, Mrs.
Wagaman. Mrs. Scott Garman Kate Gingrich, also from Lit-wSll
preside. itz was present. *
The Senior Choir of t h e
Moravian Congregation with
Mr. Harold Stryker, bass -bari­tone,
will present Sir John
S ta in e r ’s oratorio “THE CRU­CIFIXION”
, on Sunday eve­ning,
March 19, 19 61, a t 7:30
P.M.
“ The Crucifixion” was com­posed
in 1887 and is one of
the most widely performed of
all choral compositions. I t *is
meditation of the sacred | te-rian Church of Lancaster.
passion of our Lord Jesus
Christ; a story in music of
His sufferings and death. Its
inspiring beauty is truly a
moving experience to a i’ wh’o
hear and u n de r s tand its mes­sage.
Mr. Harold Stryker, a grad­uate
of Fran k l in and Marshall
College, is a . fotfmer member
n,nd soloist with F i r s t Preshy-
He spent the past seven year
in Downey, California, where
he was tran s fe r red by Arm­strong
Cork Co., and during
that, time became interested
in the founding of the Down­ey
Moravian Church, which
was being built in his neigh­borhood.
He organized arid di­rected
a choir there. Last year
he wits again trans fe r red, this
time back to the Lancaster
area. He and his family have
made Lititz the ir home and
have become active members
in the Lititz Moravian Congre­gation.
Mr. Stryker will sing the
baritone na r ra tive which in­tersperses
solo, c h o i r a n d
men’s chorus n u m b e r s
thro u g h p u t the oratorio. Ten-c
o n t i n u e d on Page 8)
grand to ta l of eight rehearsals
or one week afid one day from
today to get the play ready for
production. Th an k s a lot J a n ­et,
most of us are too busy
learning lines and stage move­ments
a t practice th a t we do n ’t
have milch time to do any high­er
math such as addition and
subtraction. All kidding aside
this rep o r te r who is an inside
man, a member of the cast,
predicts th a t “ F a th e r of the
Bride” will be one of the finest
plays ever to be produced by
any jun io r and many senior
classes a t W.H.S. or any oth e r
county school.
We have done a fete no one
ever th o u g h t we could do. We
finally got Mr. Bourdette to
admit th a t he was ju s t as wor­ried
a t this time about last
years jun io r play as he is about
this one. We all th ought Mr.
Bourdette was losing his hair
because of the problems en­countered
in directing the play
''but he shattered our every
thought. Believe it or not he
got a haircut.
I have had the profound
' pleasure of b e in g ' able to
watch Mr. Murr and Mr. Sload
tran s fo rm the beautiful picture
th a t was drawn into an actual
setting. Congratulations! I t ’s
beautiful and it h a sn ’t even
| been completely set up yet.
We would like to give credit
to all the people behind the
set doing their part, we would
like to name every person in­dividually
but this is impossi­ble.
The first commitees set
up were the ticket and poster
committees with Terry Dageu
and Bill Lindeman as the re ­spective
chairmen. If you have
seen the tickets r a th e r “ In­vita
tions” and posters you
know the gre a t job th a t was
done by these, committees.
Pre-planning on the pfo-grams
has been done by Ce-
(Continued on Page 8)
Community
Calendar
Mar. 10— 6:30 P.M. — Lititz
Lions Club meeting a t the
American Legion.
7:30 P.M. — PTA meet­ing.
A 6th grade musical
program will be present­ed
under the direction of -
Mrs. H. Moore.
7:30 P.M. — Senior Citi­zens
— enter tained by
ABCD at I.O.O.F. Hall.
8:00 P.M. — Jr. Chamber
of Commerce Board of
Directors meeting.
Mar. 17—
Mar. 18— 6:30 P.M. — Ju n io r
Chamber of Commerce
Annual Banquet a t Evans
Re s taurant, Manheim.
8 - 1 1 : 3 0 P.M. — Sopho­more
Dance “ Spring Noc­tu
r n e ” at the Warwick
High School.
Mar. 1!)— 7:30 P.M. — The
Moravian Church Choir
will present “The Cruci­fixion”
at the Moravian
’ Church.
Mar. 2 0— 6:30 P.M. — Mar­tin
Luthe r Choir rehe a r s ­al
at St. P a u l ’s Church.
Church.
7:00 P.M. — Junior Choir
and Confirmation classes
at St. P a u l ’s Church.
7:30 P.M. — Lititz Re­tailers
Association meet­ing
at Weaver’s Re s tau­rant.
7:30 P.M.— I.O.O.F. meet­ing
a t Odd Fellows Hall.
8:00 P.M. — Woman ’s
Club meeting a t the Gen­eral
Sutter Hotel.
8:00 P.M. — Young Peo­ple’s
Choir rehear sal a t
St. P a u l ’s Church.
8:00 P.1VI. — American
Legion Auxiliary Card
party at the American
Legion.
Mar. 21— 6:00 P.M. — Rotary
Club meeting a t the Gen­eral
Sutter Hotel.
7:00 P.M. — Planning
Commission meeting.
7 : 30 P.M. — R e g u l a r
meeting of the Ladies
Auxiliary VFW, Post 1463
at the post home.
Mar. 2 2— 8:00 P.M. — Sr.
Choir rehear sal a t St.
P a u l ’s Church.
Mar. 2 3— 6:30 P.M. — Ladies
Auxiliary to the VFW,
Post 14 63 dinner for ac­tive
members.
8:00 P.M. — Stamp Club
meeting at the American
Legion. There will be a
“ Clothes Line” exhibit.
AU clubs a n d organization!)
a re a sk ed to co -o p erate in th is
p ro je c t by callin g th e R e c re a ­tio
n C en te r an y day from 3 :3 0
p.m. to 5 p.nn, T h u rsd a y a n d
F rid ay s from 10 to 12 a.m.
a n d 1 to 3 p.m. Those w ish ­ing
to w rite in may do so by
mailing to P.O, Box 225.