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Vol. 76 No. 4 January 28, 1976
Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin
MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA.
From left to right are: Ronald Alleman, 1974 DSA winner; Thomas Meckley, 1975 DSA
winner; and William Bower, president of the Mount Joy Jaycees.
Meckley, Kopf & ambulance crew
win Mount Joy Jaycee awards
The Mount Joy Jaycees
presented this year’s
Distinguished Service
Award to Thomas Meckley.
Special Recognition
Awards went to Nancy Kopf
and the Friendship Fire
Co. Ambulance Committee.
The Distinguished Service
Award is presented each
year to a young man whose
service te the community
has been outstanding.
The Special Recognition
Awards ge to community
members who don’t qualify
for the DSA because of age
or sex.
Jaycee’s president William Bower presents
Tom Meckley won the
DSA for his active member-
ship in St. Mark’s United
Methodist Church, the
Board of Directors of the
Norlance Medical Center,
the Mount Joy Bicentennial
Commission, and the
Donegal Scheol Board.
Nancy Kopf won the
Special Recognition Award
for her sixteen years of
service to the Girl Scouts of
Mount Joy, Maytown and
Marietta.
The Ambulance Commit-
tee received a Special
Recegnition Award for their
Recognition Award to Nancy Kopf.
Special
lifesaving efforts over the
past year. The Jaycees
noted that the ambulance
crew answered 300 calls and
devoted thousands of hours
to work and training last
year.
The awards were pre-
sented last weekend at a
banquet at the Mount Joy
Legion.
Vote to begin
for Mount Joy
king & queen
by La Von Harnish
Voting for Mount Joy's
1976 Sweetheart King and
Queen will begin this
Friday, January 30.
Residents may vote for
their faverite child by
_ placing money in the canis-
ter near the child's photo-
graph.
Relatives and friends are
urged te lock for their
child’s picture at these local
businesses; Union National
Bank, National Central
Bank, Stehman’s IGA ,
Hy-Le, and Hostetter
Hardware.
The contest will run from
January 30 until Friday,
February 13, when the votes
will be tallied. The names of
the winners will not be
revealed until the crowning
ceremonies on February 14,
10:30 AM, at Borough Hall.
Any parents who have not
yet entered their child, age
nine months through three
years inclusive, may do sc
by bringing the child's
picture to 24S Marietta Ave.
by January 28.
UEHANNA TIMES
FIFTEEN CENTS
Three year old Sherry Brewer communicates with sign
language.
Worried mothers organize
after federal gov’t cutback
hits program for deaf kids
Scheol officials say there
is no cause for alarm, but
mothers of deaf children are
worried anyway.
Members of the Friendship Ambulance Committee received a Special Recognition
Award from the Mount Joy Jaycees last weekend. Photo shows, from left to right,
ambulance members Mary Jane Wargo, Ronald Alleman, Mary Hoffmaster, Gary
Maxwell, Don Alleman, Mike Wargo and Judy Maxwell.
Federal funds for LU.
13's program {or chidren
with hearing and speech
problems have been slashed
by 2/3.
Mothers like Mrs. Peggy
Brewer of Marietta are
sending letters to every
state representative in the
LLU. 13 area, asking the
state to take over the federal
government's program.
Mrs. Brewer is also
distributing the letters at
Herr's Market in Marietta,
so that other citizens can
send them.
Peggy's daughter, three-
year-old Sherry Brewer, has
been almost deaf since she
caught German measles
when she was a baby.
When Sherry was two she
began sign-language train-
ing with L.U. 13's Project
CHILD (Children with hear-
ing Impairment and/or Lan-
guage Delay). Mrs. Brewer
also attends sign language
classes.
Mother and daughter can
communicate. Sherry is
learning language at the
same age as a normal child.
Studies show that children
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