SUSQ
Vol. 76 No 16 April 21, 1976
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Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Builetin
MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA.
Raph M, Snyder
Re Ds 2 a
Mount Joy, PA 17552 \
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FIFTEEN CENTS
Gloria Longenecker of Mount Joy, riding a bicycle loaned
by Clair Mummau’s Firestone store will lead the Lancaster
Association for Retarded Citizens’ Bikeathon on Sunday,
April 25.
Gloria, the reigning Miss Lancaster County, and ten other
county celebrities will all be riding bikes courtesy of
Mummau’s Firestone. Registration forms are available at
the Firestone store and Mount Joy Western Auto.
Two zoning variances
rejected in Marietta
Marietta Borough Council
rejected two requests for
zoning variances at last
Tuesday’s meeting.
A request to rezone 217
West Market Street to allow
a ceramics shop to be
operated was rejected be-
cause only businesses oper-
ated from the owner’s home
are allowed in that area.
A request to rezone 471
Wasp Street to allow a gas
station to open was refused.
The area is zoned R-100
(strictly residential).
Six bids were opened in
response to advertised
specifications for a borough
dump truck. The lowest bid
which meets the specifica-
tions will be accepted.
A request by the U.S.
Aluminum Corp. to close
Hazel Street between Jones
and Biddle Streets was
tabled.
The borough released the
PA flood recovery team
from its obligation to repay
the boro for services render-
ed during the ’72 flood with
the exception of storm sewer
and site claims.
A personnel and super-
visory committee for a
federal summer jobs pro-
gram will be headed by
Council President Oliver
Overlander. Three unem-
ployed persons will be hired
by the borough under the
federal CETA program to
work on street repair and
town maintaniance. The
federal government will pay
their wages.
Mayor B. R. McDevitt
declared the weeks between
April 15 and May 1 as
“‘clean up, paint up, and fix
up time’’ in Marietta.
Ordinances on trash, litter,
weeds, etc., will be strictly
enforced after May 1, the
mayor said.
Letters will be forwarded
to service organizations
about War Memorial Park,
urging cooperation with the
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Neighborhood wants
playground equipment
kept at former school
Residents of the neigh-
borhood around the old
Washington School in the
Donegal School District told
the school directors Thurs-
day they didn’t want to lose
the playground equipment
there.
The building is no longer
operated as a school. It now
houses the district offices.
The board members intend-
ed to move the playground
equipment to the Riverview
Elementary School at Mari-
etta, which had requested
equipment for their play-
ground.
Residents said their child-
ren use the playground
equipment and would miss
it if it were shipped to
Marietta.
Dr. William Landis, board
president, said the board
would ship the equipment
immediately and would con-
sider the request. But he
added that should keeping
the equipment at the office
building result in higher
cost to the district, the board
would have no choice but to
remove it.
The equipment, according
to Mrs. Judy Weller, whose
children use the equipment
in question, was purchased
Sherk, Landis, placed high
As usual, Donegal High
School dominated the Lan-
caster Science Fair. The two
biggest winners from DHS
were Jacob Sherk and
Barbara Landis.
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FREE BREESES
Jake Sherk
Jacob G. Sherk, Jr., won
the reserve championship of
the county and will travel to
Denver to compete in the
some years ago by the
Parent-Teacher Organiza-
tion.
Bids on lawn mowers and
mowing services were re-
turned to the building com-
mittee, for their study, since
they were ‘‘very compli-
cated’’. Some were con-
cerned with only equipment
for mowing, some for mow-
ing services only and others
were bid with both in mind.
Teachers were queried at
the Riverview School on
their willingness to aid in
the application of a pro-
posed Flouride treatment
program at that school. The
teachers said they were wil-
ling to help in the voluntary
program. Whether to use
the tablet form or liquid
rinse is a question to be
settled by those involved.
Local dentist have been
contacted about the pro-
gram and have stated their
approval.
Two drain fields are
saturated, engineer Daniel
Gohn reported. The school
was granted a 45-day
extension by the DER and
East Donegal Township
after being told the problem
must be solved or the school
would be closed.
national championships,
May 9 to May 15.
His project was a study of
a chemical reaction rarely
investigated in this country -
a rapid oscillation from a
blue to a colorless liquid
solution. Jake investigated
the effect of four factors on
the rate of oscillation: th.
concentrations of the rea-
gents and of the catalysts,
the presence of non-aqueous
solutions, and temperature.
Jake excels not only in
science but in other subjects
as well; he was elected to
the National Honor Society
this year in his junior year at
Donegal High School.
In addition to being a top
scholar, he plays soccer,
wrestles, and is a member of
the Soccer Club, the Varsity
Club, and the Hispanic
Honor Society.
He is also captain of the
Chiques United Methodist
softball team.
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photo shows Mrs. Robert Spangler wi
th a few of the
courses her food committee plans to serve at the
Marietta-Maytown-E. Donegal Bicentennial Ball on
Saturday, April 24.
The ball starts at 9 p.m. in the Riverview Elementary
School cafeteria, but the buffet supper won’t be served
until midnight. Cold sliced country baked ham with
mustard glaze, homemade biscuits, jello salads,
homemade layer cake, colonial-style mints and coffee are
on the menu.
To work up an appetite, guests can dance the minuet.
Kathleen Smith will play piano, Ann Shellenburger, violin
and Elizabeth Collins, piano. Mrs. Kathleen Goodall will
give minuet instructions.
Inveterate jitterbuggers can kick up their heels to Morell
Shields and the Dixielanders.
15,000 paper red roses will decorate the cafeteria. Tickets
can be purchased at the door.
Barb Landis
The third-place winner in
the county out of 213 entries
from the county was
Barbara Landis with her
exhibit ‘‘Gelatin”’.
Using ordinary cooking
gelatin, Barbara succeeded
in measuring the percentage
of silver or copper in alloys.
Her method was to inject
a solution of the metal into
gelatin using a hypodérmic
needle. The molecules of
in science fair
liquid metal react with the
gelatin in culture dishes to
form diffused rings, which
can be made visible by
adding metal indicators.
Measuring the diameter
of the rings and comparing
them with standards provid-
ed the basis for calculating
the percentage of silver or
copper in the alloys.
Like Y-ke, Barbara is a
member of the National
Honor Society in her junior
year at Donegal.
She is also an all-around
person. She runs the 440 in
track, is a member of the
Student Council, and the
Booster Club, is class
treasurer, cheerleader, and
plays a French horn in the
band.
One of Barbara’s absorb-
ing outside interests this
Bicentennial year is partici-
pating in the activities of the
Donegal Rangers.