Lititz Record Express

              The Lititz Record - Express
Serving The Warwick Union Area For Nearly A Century
*fith Year E stab lish ed April, 1877,. as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated w ith The Xdtltz Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, January 2, 1964 7 cen ts a Copy; $3.00 per y ea r b y m a il ■»a d
w ith in L an ca ste r County; $4.00 e lsew h ere 10 Pages — No. 38
Borough Hopes To Keep Tax Rate At 12y2 Mills
50th Anniversary For
Church Of Brethren
The Lititz Church of the
Brethren will observe its fif­tieth
anniversary, Jan u a ry 5-
$ in special services with Pas­to
r Nevin H. Zuck of Eliza­bethtown
as the guest minister.
Dr. Zuck has in recent .years
irved as moderator of his
enomiaMtan, as chairman of
he Sta» P astors’ Conference,
and as th e pastor of faculty
and students of Elizabethtown
College, along with his ser­vice
to the Elizabethtown
Church.
On Ja n u a ry 1, 1914, th e
B rethren in Lititz took action,
to begin a new congregation,'
and th e church was officially
organized on Jan u a ry 10 of
th a t year, with 119 ch a rte r
ttieqibera.
The service on Sunday
Rtoraing, Jan u a ry 5, a t 10:30
o’clock has been designated as,
th* Anniversary and Home-»
com ics Service. Recognition
will be given in th is service to
the ch a rte r members of the
church and le tte rs of greeting
from former pastors will be
read. P a sto r’s Zuck’s sermon
Sutter Hotel
Closes Doors
The General Sutter Hotel
closed its doors Tuesday even­ing
afte r serving th e communi­ty
for 200 years.
The managers, Mr. and Mrs.’
Roy W. Wagner, are retiring;
and the fu tu re of the hotel re-!
mains shrouded in mystery.
Employes say they have been
told nothing.
Dr. M. H. Yoder, president
of th e stockholders who voted
a month ago to sell the hostel­ry,
said th e re is to he a meet-tomorrow
with "interested
p arties." Representatives of a
church denomination which
has expressed an in te re st in
th e hotel, said, however, th a t
It is not th e ir gfoap and th a t
they have made no decision on
it. .
Two o th e r possibilities have
been mentioned, but not con­firmed.
One is th a t the hotel
will reopen very shortly under
•new management, add the
othe r is th a t a community
group will take i t over because
of its historic value. .
will be on the theme, “Where
Do We Go From Here?” The
Senior Choir, under the direc­tion
of Mrs. Harold E. Kern,
will sing "Send Out Thy
L ight” by Gounod, and Mrs.
James Shank will preside a t
the organ. Pastor Olden D.
Mitchell will preside a t this
service.
The Sunday evening service
a t seven o’clock will follow,
insofar as possible, the pattern
of service used fifty years ago.
The Middle Creek and the
Akron Churches of th e Bre­th
ren will join with the Lititz
Church in this service. The
local church moderator, Dr.
Henry G. Bucher, will preside
a t th is service and will be
assisted by ministers of the
other cooperating churches.
Dr. Zuck’s sermon will be on
"The Church of Our F a th e rs ” .
Monday evening’s service at
seven-thirty will center on
“Our Church Heritage” . John
G. Hershey, church historian,
will present a brief history or
highlights of "The Lititz
Church Through Fifty Years” .
Dr. Zuck’s sermon will be on
the theme “The Church of
Our Children” . John K. Gray-biil,
chairman of the church
board, will preside a t this ser­vice.
The Senior Choir will
present the anthem, “Be Thou
My Vision” by Godfrey.
, District Night will be ob
served in th e service a t seven-th
irty on Tuesday when minis­ters
and others from the
churches t>f the Eastern Penna
District will be the special
guests. Greetings will be
brought by th e district mod­era
tor, the Rev. Howard Bern-hard.
The Rev. Norman Muss-er,
for rdany year the modera­tor
of the L ititz church, will
also assist in the service. Dr.
Zuck’s message will be en titl­ed,
“Healing a Broken World.”
Special music will be provid­ed
by the Male Chorus under
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WEIS TO OPEN
Weis Markets locatel on S
Broad St., a t the end of the
borough, will open Wednesday,
Jan u a ry 8, store officials an­nounced.
National Parks Theme
Of Next Rotary Lecture
PRESENT BUILDING of Church of the B rethren congregation, which will observe Its
noth anniversary this month. The building shown above is new, the first service having been
held the re on June 10, 1002. Prior to th a t the congregation occupied n building on E ast Cen­te
r Street from 1020 to 1002, and still ea rlier worshipped in a building on Willow Street,
formerly Church St., from 1014 when the congregation was organized, until_1020.
Highlights Of Year ’63
Mingle Good With Bad
Highlights of the year are presented here from
the pages of the Record-Express for 1963 — which
could hardly be called “that wonderful year” especial­ly
in a national or world-wide sense.
However, in Lititz, good was pretty well inter­mingled
with the bad, and steps forward were made.
Week-by-week, highlights in the news were as follows:
i H. Koser, eighty-nine, was re-
James Metcalf, of Dckagidc,
Mich-, photographer and ad*
venturer, will present his pro*
gram, “Wings to Wonderland;
,— Our National Parks,” as
the next in the Travel and
Adventure Series sponsored by
the Lititz Rotary Club Satur­day,
Jan u a ry 4, a t 8 p.m. in
the Warwick High School Au­ditorium.
James Metcalf
School Menu
Monday
Beef barbecue, baked beans,
applesauce.
Tuesday
Chuck wagon steak in roll,
buttered limas, peaches.
Wednesday
Jo e’s dinner, wax beans,
cole slaw, cupcake.
Thursday
Chicken noodle soup, chic­ken
salad sandwich, apple
crisp.
Friday
Sub or grilled cheese sand­wich,
celery/.p. butte r, banana.
* The program is an all-color
travel film which consumed
two years in production. It in­cludes
the National Parks of
St. Joh n 's in the Virgin Is­lands,
Grand Canyon, Great
Smokies, Yosemite, Big Bend,
Acadia, Isle Royal, Everglades,
Carlsbad Caverns, Mesa Verde,
Yellowstone, Tetons, Bryce,
Zion, Jackson Hole, Mt. Rain­ier,
Olympic, Glacier and Mt.
Rushmore.
Metcalf piloted his own
plane to each one of these
parks to produce this film. He
flies a Cessna 172 and he
acquaints the audience with
the various procedures in
modern-day flying of private
aircraft. The use of the plane
enabled him to produce many
aerial views of the various
parks.
Of in te re st too, are the
close-up p o rtra its of the chil­dren
of the many ethnological
groups th a t represent and en­joy
the parks of our country,
including the shy child of the
Virgin Islands, the sunbonnet-ed
mountain child of Cads
Cove in th e Smokies, blonde,
slicker-clad son of a fisherman
in Acadia, Maine, and the ro ­bust
cowboy youngster of Big
Bend, Texas.
Metcalf has been in the
photographic profession for al­most
20 years. He majored in
chemistry a t the University of
Michigan, and la te r studied
commercial photography, g ra ­duating
from the professional
school a t Winona, In/diana.
During World War II he tr a ­veled
extensively for the Army
Ordinance Corps, producing
technical manuals and training
films. His camera assignments
have taken him into Canada,
Yucatan, Mexico, Guatemala,
El Salvador, Honduras, Cuba,
Venezuela, Colombia, the West
Indies and many other places.
Many of his illustrations have
been used in both color and
black and white in textbooks.
Ja n u a ry
Ja n u a ry 3 — Borough coun­cil
retained th e tax ra te at
12 ys mills, plus Na $10 per
capita tax when it approved
the tentative budget for 1963
of $148,460. Two streets in the
borough were closed off for
coasting fallowing s n o w
storms.
Jan u a ry 10 — Dr. Paul G.
Hess was newly elected a
director of the F arm ers’ Na­tional
Bank to fill a vacancy.
Neighbors found a new home
for the family of Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence F rankford, Lititz R2,
whose home was destroyed by
fire. They also received fu r­niture
and clothing.
Jan u a ry 17 — Police Chief
George C. Hicks was named
“Outstanding Young Man of
the Year’’ by the Ju n io r Cham­ber
of Commerce a t the ir an­nual
awards banquet a t the
General Sutter Hotel. Henry
Four Garages
Burglarized
On S. Broad
Four automobile sales and
service establishments in the
south end of town were burg­larized
between 11 p.m. Sat­urday
and 8 a.m. Sunday, it
was reported by Police Chief
George C. Hicks.
The burglaries an occurred
in the 700 block of South
Broad Street, and are believed
to be the work of the same
person or persons, Chief Hicks
said.
At Keller Bros. garage,
there was no sign of forcible
entry, but evidence showed
some one had been inside,
Chief Hicks said. The soft-d
rin k machine was pried open
and two boxes of mechanics’
tools were broken into and the
contents stolen, he said. One
man lost $400 worth of tools,
Hicks said.
At the Lititz Chevron Stat­io
n , the operator, Ken Weit,
found Sunday morning th a t a
large glass on the front door
had been broken, and th a t
$1 10, mostly in small change,
had been taken, Chief Hicks
said.
The thieves broke out a
pane of glass at the re a r door
of Miller’s Service station, but
nothing of value was found to
be missing, according to Chief
Hicks. The robbers passed up
rolls of change, he said.
At Steffy’s garage, there
was no sign of forcible entry,
but $400 was reported taken
from the cash register. Twenty
dollars in change was passed
up, Chief Hicks said.
Local police are investigat­ing.
elected president of the Lititz
Mutual Insurance Co. for the
34th year.
January 24 — Janet Rei-denbaugh,
daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Reidenbaugh,
was winner of the Pennsyl­vania
Bar Association’s sta te­wide
Court House Tour essay
contest. She is a senior a t
Warwick High School and re ­ceived
a prize of $250. Her
teacher, Dean G. Milter, re ­ceived
a $100 prize.
January 31 — Linda Ulrich,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon
R. Ulrich, was winner of the
annual Voice of Democracy
Scriptwriting contest, spon­sored
by the Veterans of
Foreign Wars. The borough
ended the year with a $4,081
surplus, and reported th a t
building permits for the year
totalled $593,585.
February
February 7 — The War­wick
Township supervisors re ­duced
the tax ra te from 7 to
6 Vz mills, and retained the
$5 per capita tax. They re ­ported
th a t snow removal
from the New Year’s Day
blizzard alone cost $3,011.50.
The Elizabeth Township sup­ervisors
set the ir rate at 8
mills, the same as last year.
February 14 — Announce­ment
th a t a tra ile r camp would
be erected at the foot of Kissel
Hill caused a furor in the
area. The land was sold by
Samuel High to E. William
Pontz, of Mount Joy Mobile
Homes, Inc. This resulted in a
special meeting of the War­wick
Township supervisors a t
which they took the first steps
toward a Planning Commission
for the township.
February 21 — A group of
24 residents of Kissel Hill met
Informal Budget Discussion Lists
1964 Expenses Of $153,950
BU D G E T SUM M A R Y
A summary of the budget compared with la st year fol-lows:
GENERAL FUND
Receipts 1963 1964
Beginning Balance $ 4,081.10 $ 520.
Property Tax 76,230.00 78,750.
Per Capita Tax 36,633.50 37,000.
Liens and permits 1,866.75 2,080.
Fines ' 1,250.00 1,250.
Service charge '26,411.07 24,550.
Miscellaneous 3,072.23 9,800.
Available $149,544.65 $153,950.
Expenditures 1963 1964
General government $ 31,082.46 $ 37,606.
Safety 33,076.08 28,404.
Streets 65,899.85 70,400.
Sanitation 2,654.40 2,700.
Parks - Recreation 2,627.50 2,200.
Miscellaneous 13,686.94 12,640.
Total $149,027.23 $153,950.
Ending Balance. $517.42 000
Expenditures from other funds are requested as follows:
Water Revenue fund: $113,895; Sewer revenue fund, $133,500;
Swimming Pool, $27,020; Highway aid, $34,248.61; Water
System, Construction fund, $22,726.22; Storm drainage con-structlon
fund, $44,654.02; police pension fund, $2,700.
to form a Civic Association for
the area, and stated they were
in favor of a planning commis­sion
for the township, but op­posed
to annexation by the
borough. P rotests also continu­ed
from other residents against
the proposed Tra ile r court.
February 28 — Jack 8. Wat­son
was named chairman of a
combined drive for the Re­creation
Center, the Lititz
Springs P ark and the Public
Library. C. Ned Foltz leased
the historic Lititz Pretzel
House a t 219 E. Main St., on
a year-round basis.
March
March 7 — Sabin oral polio
vaccine was given to 3,954
persons of the area under the
auspices of the Lancaster City
and County Medical Society.
The Warwick Township super­visors
approved a budget call­ing
for $93,209.77 in receipts
and $73,259.11 in expenditur­es.
Heavy rains caused the
Lititz Springs Creek to over­flow.
•
March 14 — The Republi­can
party backed C. Rodney
Welch and Horace A. Jiauff-man
for school directors. Rich­ard
Allebach, whbse term
would be up, said he plight
run again, and Clyde Hend­ricks,
whose term also would
expire at th e end of the year,
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To Collect- Trees
Tonight- For Burning
The Junior Chamber of
Commerce will collect Christ­mas
trees tonight only, and
not on Friday as well, as pre­viously
announced.
The group decided since
the ir first notification, th a t
they will be unable to pick up
trees on Friday prior to the
annual “Twelfth Night” tree
burning scheduled for Friday
night between 8 and 9 p.m. at
Zartman’s Quarry.
The pick-up tonight will
sta rt a t 7 p.m. Householders
are asked to have th e ir trees
out on the curb.
Historical Foundation
Lifts Permit To Remodel
A building permit in the
amount of $10,000 has been
issued to the Lititz Historical
Foundation for restoration of
the property at 159 East Main
St., it was revealed in the list
of building permits issued by
the borough this month, utf to
December 2 0.
The work includes general
repairs and restoration of the
interior and minor work on the
exterior. They are tearing out
the inside of the addition on
the rea r of the house, and
afte r that is completed, the ex­terior
portion will be fazed.
Ranck’s Meat Market, 5 3
N. Broad St,, took out a permit
to add a cold storage building
a t the re a r of the present ma r­ket
at a cost of $1,800.
Building permits for re ­modelling
amounted to a total
of $15,000 during the month,
including those previously
mentioned. Others who lifted
permits were as follows: R.
C. Bixler, 343 E. Main St.,
remodel upstairs; Mary Sum'
my, 131 S. Spruce St., asbes­tos
siding; Harry Keener, 331
N. Broad St., new roof; Jacob
Leed, North Alley, replacing
worn out sills and doors; Wes
ley Snader, 235 E. Main St.,
add outside chimney to house;
Elmer Adams, 105 N. Broad
St,, tear down building; Mel­vin
Shumaker, 550 Golden St.,
install underground gas stor­age
tan k ; Charles Haines, 101
N. Broad St., install sign;
John Kendig, W. Orange St.,
tear down tenant house.
No permits were issued for
new construction this month
Boro Balances
Year-End Books
A balance of $1,029.37 re ­mained
in the borough coffers
a t the close of the month end­ing
December 20, according to
the financial rep o rt presented
to borough council Monday
night.
The month began with a
balance of $12,872.65, and
receipts totalled $2,483.28,
broken down as follows: taxes,
$751.41; licenses and permits,
$2 6.25; fines, $125.50; depart­mental
income,1 $1,534.62; mis­cellaneous,
$45.50, making a
total of $15,355.93 available.
Expenditures totalled $14,
355.56, broken down as fol­lows:
general goverment, $4,-
256.51; safety, $3,446.79;
highways, $4,035.17; sanita­tion,
$230.30; r e c r e a t i o n ,
$500; miscellaneous, $1,866.-
79.
Receipts to date in 1963 to­tal
$149,024.13, o r ((lightly
more than the $148,460 bud­geted.
Expenditures were
$149,003.76, leaving th e bal­ance
of $1,020.37.
Borough Tax
Collection
At High Peak
Lititz borough completed
1963 with only $88.86 owing
it in current real estate taxes,
it was reported by Borough
Manager R. Keith Armstrong,
who also serves as tax col­lector.
The property tax bill was
$77,465.90, of which $77,377.-
04 was accounted for.
The per capita tax hill was
$40,410, of which $490 is
still outstanding. There have
been exonerations amounting to
$3,370. The to ta l tax bill,
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Settlement
Bid Delayed
By Council
•Borough council, a t its
meeting Monday night, defe r­red
a compromise settlement
with th e new defunct Lititz
Machine Go., which sued the
borough for alleged losses.
The borough sa id it h a d
tu rn ed th e m a tte r over to its
solicitors. No figure was men­tioned
¡for th e proffered com­promise.
The firm is owned by the
Nuss esta te , an d d id some wa­te
r line construction fo r the
borough. Alfred I*. Douple,
executor • of th e Nuss estate,
presented a bill fo r $500 for
alleged damage to Nuss field
which occurred when a water­line
’broke and flooded t h e
field.
The L ititz Machine company
in 1959-19'60 constructed the
water lines on E. Main St.
when it Was reconstructed and
toward the end of th e work
requested additional pay-ment.
This request was tu rn ­ed
down on, th e recommenda­tion
of Hutb Engineers, who
felt th e re was no; yt basic
change in the contract. Lititz
Machine Co. th e n sued th e bor­ough
fo r about $36,000 and
the suit was turned down by
the judge in argument court.
F our amended complaints
since been filed, and in each
case the judge said th e firm
did not have ;a valid com­plaint.
Last Marteh the com­pany
attempted to make a
compromise settlement, tu rn ­ed
down by th e borough,
which contends th a t 'the firm
underbid to begin with, did a
poor job, took a loss and is
trying to 'blvime i't on 'the
borough.
I t wias announced the Oak
Street bridge has been re-
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YOUTHS TO THE RESCUE: The five youths shown u n ­der
th e umbrella are mopping up a t th e Ree Center, where a
frozen drain pipe caused leakage of snow and w ater from
the roof into th e auditorium. Left to rig h t they are Lowell
Lehman, Herb Clausen, Donald Witmcr, Mike Pinkerton and
Carl Shenk. About ten othe r boys also helped in th e clean-up
process.
Borough Council is expec­ted
to hold th e tax ra te a t
12 Yz mills on real estate, and
$10 per capita, same as this
year, according to the prelim­inary
budget discussions Mon­day
night. The budget will go
on public display and will
probably be formally adopted
the end of January.
One change which could
make the tax ra te go up would
come about if a decision to
form a recreation commission
would be made before t h e
formal adoption of the bud­get.
In th a t case, the tax ra te
would go up to 13y2 mills,-
because the borough would
have to contribute $6,745 : to
the recreation program, as
recommended by the Recrea­tion
Study committee. A» it
is now, the sum of $1000 hàs
been set aside as the bor­ough's
contribution to the
Rec. Center, $900 to the iLlt-itz
Springs Park, an d $200! to
the library, all the same - as
1963,
The tentative budget for
the general fund calls for Ex­penditures
of $153,950, as
compared with $149,027.23
for the year ju st ending. The
new figure, however, is still
lower than in 19 6:2, when ex­penditures
of $162,253 were,
budgeted, and in 1961, when
the figure was $156,18il. T h a t
year the borough sta rted with
a deficit of $770 0, which wa3
made up during the year, and
not incurred since.
The increases in the bud­get
provide fo r more s tr e e t
improvements, pay raises, pro­vision
fo r another crossing
guard and fo r an additional
man in the works department,
and extension to the borougn
garage. Savings are effected
in other areas.
From othe r funds, plaffi*
are in the making to construct
a pumping station a t Kissel
Hill at a cost of $22,726. This
comes from the water con­struction
fund.
I t is also contemplated th â t
the North Broad Street water
line from F ront Stre et to the.
borough limits will be repla­ced
early in the Spring lb co­ordination
with reconatruB-tion
cf N. Broad St. The ¿(ini
of $4 4,000 will be available
because of the refinancing of
the water system bonds. ;;
Also in the cards are ae##£-
al pieces of equipment, whfch
will be made p o s s i b l e
through the equipment resehke
fund. These would include A
new police car, $2000; i>hè
up truck for the works d e ­partment,
$200 0; ditch pump,
$200; typewriter, $361; and
tra c to r with fro n t end loader
and back hoe, $5,309. This
fund is built up by adding to
it from time to time the d e ­preciation
value of the var­ious
pieces of equipment, so
th a t there is no large item all
a t one time to deplete it.
The borough plans to dou­ble
the size of the borough
garage a t N. Alley and Water
Streets, a t a cost of $5,300,
More space is needed to house
the additional equipment
which has been acquired over
the p a s t few years.
A stree t resurfacing pro­gram
is planned, costing an
estimated $8,500 which will
come to the borough from the
county. Also scheduled is a
complete job on the Oak Stre et
bridge and the Locust Street
bridge, for which $34,248.61
is available from the sta te ,
refunded by the liquid fuel
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Community
Calendar
Jan. 2— 6:30 P.M. — Rad
Club meeting a t the Recre
tion Center.
7:30 P.M. — Weight Liftil
Club meeting at the Recre
tion Center.
7:30 P.M. — Fire Co. A us
liary meeting at the Fi:
Hall.
Jan. 5— 10:30 A.M.
Church of the
Homecoming and
Anniversary,
1:00 P.M. — ABC Rehea
sal at the Recreation Cente
7:00 P.M. — Lititz Chur*
of the Brethren Homecoi
ing- and Fiftieth Annive
sary.
8:00 P.M. — Lititz Chur
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