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Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Buiietin
MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA.
FIFTEEN CENTS
Vol. 76 No. 12 March 24, 1976
Plan to enforce preservation of Marietta
“to be proposed by Restoration Association
Legislation forcing pro-
perty owners to get permis-
sion from a historical com-
mittee before building or
altering structures is being
drafted by the Marietta
Restoration Associates.
The Restoration Associ-
ates hope to submit their
proposal to Borough Council
as early as June.
Backing is being sought
from state and county
DER threatens to close
The drainage system at
Donegal High School is not
working properly, and the
PA Dept. of Environmental
Resources has threatened to
close the high school if the
problem is not solved soon.
Schools Superintendent
Ragnar Hallgren told school
board members at ‘last
week’s meeting that the
DER has agreed to give the
school time to work on the
problem.
Polluted water has been
rising to the surface of the
school’s tile field, which is
located at a considerable
distance from the high
school.
Daniel Gohn, sanitation
officer for [East Donegal
Township, led an investiga-
tion into the problem. A
backhoe was hired to locate
the 3 junction boxes in the
field. The location of the
boxes was unknown until
agencies. The recommen-
dations of those agencies
will help determine whether
all of Marietta, or just a
section of the town, will be
included in the proposal.
The proposal would es-
tablish an ‘‘Historic Dis-
trict” in Marietta. Similar
districts have been estab-
lished in Lancaster, Lititz,
and many other local com-
munities.
Under the system, an
the backhoe located them
this week.
Mr. Gohn told Mr. Hall-
gren that a possible solution
to the problem is the
installation of 2 new outlet
boxes in the field. The cost
of installation might be as
low as $2000.
Mr. Gohn is keeping
school officials and the DER
informed on the problem.
A temporary solution to
the problem, Mr. Gohn told
Mr. Hallgren, could be the
installation of 2 new tile
fields in the drainage area.
The cost of installation could
be as low as $2000.
A longer-term solution is
the possibility of building E.
Donegal Township sewer
lines to serve the high
school and Donegal Heights
areas.
The lines could receive
treatment at the Mount Joy
sewage plant on a rental
Historic District Commis-
sion is appointed to preserve
the character of an area.
If a property owner in the
historic district wants to
alter his house, he must get
permission from the com-
mission. For example, the
commission might refuse to
allow a property owner to
cover his clapboard house
with aluminum siding.
The owner could then ask
Borough Council to override
the historical committee. If
Council refused, the pro-
perty owner would not be
allowed to put up the
alunfinum siding.
A decision by the Su-
preme Court of the United
States may have an impor-
tant effect on the Restora-
tion Associates proposal.
The Supreme Court will rule
on whether towns have the
right to limit their own
growth.
Donegal High School
basis.
Township Authority mem-
bers hope to get federal
funds to support the pro-
posed sewer line. Unfortun-
ately, federal funds are
unlikely to be available for 5
years, under the present
funding schedule.
Without federal help, the
cost of the sewer to local
taxpayers might be 800
thousand dollars.
The Donegal School
Board will contact local
legislators in Harrisburg
and the PA Department of
Education, in an atempt to
get the funds earlier.
The board voted ‘‘yes’’ to
the proposed 1976-77 bud-
gets for the 1.U. - 13 and
Lancaster County Wage Tax
Bureau.
The first administration
budget meeting of the
Donegal District was held
March 9, with the next
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Photo shows Michel Lowman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lowman of Hazel St.,
Marietta, feeding a lollipop to the family’s pet racoon. The coon, whose name is Nickie,
is usually quite friendly. During mating season, however, she gets a bit cranky.
Nickie needs a lot of water because racoons don’t have saliva glands, Mrs. Lowman told
our reporter. That is why she washes her lollipops before she eats them.
The Lowmans have three children; Michel, Sylvia, and Regina.
meeting scheduled for April
8.
Information that the
Federal programs are being
funded on a government
fiscal year of October 1 to
September 1, presents a
budget problem for schools.
This according to Hallgren,
will make September either
a local expense or dropped
for September and picked
up again in October. The
board will study the problem
and make their decision
later.
The Donegal Coaches
Association is planning a
scholarship fund for two
varsity letter winners each
year--$200 for one year
only--presented to the win-
ners who must be accepted
by an institution of higher
learning.
The board heard a report
on the suggested flouride
treatment program at River-
view School. The studetns
will be given the treatment
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Susquehanna Times publisher Nancy Bromer (in car)
got a traffic ticket from Mount Joy Patrolman Bill Reuter
(standing) recently. So much for the power of the press.
Private citizens like Nancy can take comfort in the fact that
town officials are not immune to the vigilant Mount Joy
police force.
Anyone can get tickets
The Mount Joy policeman
enjoy a reputation for
being very impartial in their
enforcement of the law.
A couple weeks ago
Mayor James Gingrich was
ticketed for not plugging a
parking meter.
Most surprising, Chief of
Police, Bruce Kline, receiv-
ed a ticket several years
ago.
The officer who gave his
chief a ticket is no longer on
the force, but Kline is quick
to say: ‘‘That’s not why he is
no longer on the force.”
Zoning Board rejects pigeon coops
and development in Mount Joy
Pigeon breeder Robert E.
Kline of Mount Joy was
turned down Wednesday
night in a bid to keep his
pigeons on a property
behind Grandview School.
The zoning hearing board
refused his request for a
variance to keep the birds on
the land, which is zoned
residential R-2.
Kline, of S67 N. Angle
Street, Mount Joy, bought
the Cherry Alley property in
July 1975 after he received a
permit to keep the pigeon
coops on the property. The
permit, issued by the
borough was a mistake
according to the zoning
hearing board.
The borough mistakenly
thought the land qualified
when it issued the permit.
Rejection of Kline’s bid to
keep the birds came after
two hearings. The board
said Wednesday the birds
could remain in coops on the
property only if principle
buildings, either for resi-
dential or business use,
were on the property.
The board also turned
aown a bid filed on behalf of
Frank Zink, 301 E. Main
St. to build semi-detached
dwellings in the borough.
Zink planned to build the
units on the property north
of Apple Tree Alley and east
of N. Jacob St., Daniel
Gohn, who is the borough
engineer, filed the request
on behalf of Zink.
Ironically, Gohn helped
write the borough zoning
rules that disallowed the
permit to build. The board
said only four of the twelve
lots in the plan would have
met the zoning rules.