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...long journey with Bicen. wagon train
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The problem was two
mules, named Molly and
Polly. Five hundred specta-
tors ran for their lives
when Molly and Polly
decided to charge down the
gangplank of the barge at
full gallop, with Mr. Larson
and his wagon rattling at
their heels.
“They really scattered,”
says Mr. Larson. ‘‘I never
saw anything like it.”
Molly and Polly were
new at their job, since
horses had pulled the
wagon out west. They had
another excuse for being
temperamental. Both are
experienced actresses in
western movies.
Once the mules slowed
down, the PA spectators
gave the wagon a friendly
reception.
“The people of PA gave
us the greatest welcome of
any place along the line,”
Mr. Larson says. ‘‘There
were rows and rows and
miles and miles of people
all along the route. It was
the greatest hospitality I
ever saw in my life.”
Sometimes the spectators
came too close for comfort.
“It’s a wonder somebody
didn’t get kicked or step-
ped on by the horses,
because they gathered
around like flies,”” Mr.
Larson says.
The official reception at
Valley Forge was not so
friendly, thanks to govern-
ment confusion. ‘‘I’d rather
forget that part,” Mr. Lar-
son says, ‘‘but we reached
our goal on time, and
that’s what matters.”
Neil and Eldora Larson
spent a couple days last
week relaxing at the home
of some friends: Jay and
Jane Howell of Marietta.
(Molly and Polly rested up
at Groff’s Farm and Rest-
aurant).
Leaning back in one of
the Howell’s comfortable
armchairs last Friday, Mr.
Larson looked tried, tanned
and happy. “When I was a
boy,” he said, ‘“‘we drove
sheep for 3 or 4 weeks
every Spring. I wore out 2
pairs of shoes on that
walk.”’
Sewing club meets
The Mount Joy 4-H scw-
ing club held their 4th
meeting on July 6th. They
played a game and sang a
song, then groups worked
on projects.
On July 21st the club will
have a round-up and pro-
jects will be judged.
Driving sheep was work.
For amusement, young Neil
Larson would ride his horse
30 or 40 miles into the
desert, chase wild ponies
for fun, then ride home
again.
Mr. Larson has made his
living as a farmer, sawmill
operator, laborer and
electrician. He now runs an
antique wagon and carriage
business in Salt Lake City,
and raises horses and
mules for the movie in-
dustry.
Jay Howell says, ‘‘He
probably knows as much
about horses as any man
alive.”
The Larsons and their
mules plan to return to
Salt Lake City in a gaso-
line-powered machine.
Mt. Joy supervisors
to buy new police car
Mount Joy Supervisors
gave their approval Friday
to advertise for bids on a
new 1977 police car. Speci-
fications will be available at
the township office follow-
ing advertisement.
Charles E. Bailey, chair-
man of the sewer authority
reported that the Federal
Housing Administration
notified him that 25 per
cent of the funds needed
for the township sewer
project will be made avail-
able at five per cent
interest.
A special meeting of the
Planning Commission has
been scheduled for Tues-
day at 7:30 p.m. at the
township building to deal
with changes in ordinances
and the township map.
Lightening starts fires
Sunday, July 21, Friend-
ship Fire Co. Neo. 1
responded to 2 fires caused
by lightning stikes. The
first alarm came in at 2:43
a.m. to assist Masterson-
ville Fire Co. on a house
fire at Sunnyside Road and
Baker Road in Rapho Twp.
Friendship responded with
30 men and was on the
scene until 5:03 a.m.
The second call came in
at 8:47 p.m. The depart-
ment extinguished a tree
fire on the Galen Benner
property, Pinkerton Road
after a passer by, Russell
McKinney, reported the
fire. Friendship was in
service 28 minutes with 20
men responding.
Cast of TV show coming to Maytown 26th
The cast of The Magic
Cocoon, a weekly, reli-
gious television program on
WGAL-TV, will be visiting
Maytown on Monday, July
26, at 11 a.m.
An hour-long mini-vaca-
tion church school-type
program will be presented
at St. John’s Lutheran
Church parking lot, featur-
ing singing, stories, games,
crafts, and dialogue with
Christopher Caterpillar, the
puppet ‘‘star’’ on the TV
program and Debbie. The
presentation will be con-
ducted from a brightly-
painted van (The Magic
Cocoon), which is the home
of Christopher and in which
the cast travels around
throughout central PA,
sharing with children an
appealing message of the
love of God and the life of
Jesus Christ.
Al] children of the com-
munity are invited to at-
tend this special personal
appearance, which is spon-
sored by the Maytown
Community Vacation
Church School.
The Maytown V.C.S. will
be held Monday through
Friday, July 26 through 30,
from 9 to 11 a.m. at St.
John’s Lutheran Church.
Classes are for age 4
through junior high. All are
welcome to attend.
The personality of
Christopher Caterpillar and
other puppets in the pro-
gram comes from Merv
Sands, an actor and
musician active in Mar-
anatha Productions, a
Christian theatrical group.
He is a member of North
End Mennonite Church in
Lancaster and is also the
host of WGAL-TV’s pre-
school children’s program,
‘“Happy Face.”
Debbie, co-host for the
program is Miss Debbie
Aichele, a recent graduate
of Millersville State College
with a major in elementary
education. She is a member
of St. Philip the Apostle
Roman Catholic Church.
Also co-hosting the TV
program and appearing in
a few of the summer
personal appearances in
Pen, the Rev. B. Penrose
Hoover, associate pastor at
historic Trinity Lutheran
Church in Lancaster.
The Magic Cocoon tele-
vision program airs weekly
on WGAL-TV on Sunday
mornings at 9:30 a.m.
(except the fourth Sunday
of each month). It has been
on the air since October,
1974, produced for the
Catholic and Protestant
faiths by TELERAD, South
Central PA Television and
Radio Ministry. It is de-
signed for elementary-age
children who do not regu-
larly attend church or
church school.
Storm sewer, liquor license topics
at Mt. Joy Boro Council meeting
Residents of the South
Delta’ Street and South
Market Street area again
approached council con-
cerning a storm sewer for
that area. At last month's
meeting a motion carried to
have the project given top
priority in the 1977 budget,
but residents have stated
the condition has existed
for over ten years and
council, until now has not
done any thing to relieve
the situation.
Their complaints state
that water lies in their
yards and causes unbear-
able odors and provides a
breeding place for mosqui-
toes. The residents are
concerned about the health
problems the condition
could promote.
Council members were
shown four possible solu-
tions to the problems and
the public works committee
will begin background work
such as, legal problems,
right-of-ways, etc.
Another group of resi-
dents from the first block
of West Main Street pre-
sented a petition to council
asking the board to deny a
bar/tavern to be opened at
36 West Main Street.
Council said they could
only support the group's
petition to the State Liquor
Control Board, since the
license is only being trans-
ferred to another building.
The law allows a liquor
license owner to retain the
license even though the
business is moved from one
building to another.
Among their objections
the resident’s complaint
stated, ‘‘“The building is
withing the 200’ limit of a
church. The state provides
that no bar/tavern may be
located within the 200’
limit and there are two
bars now within that dis-
tance from a church on
West Main Street.”” The
grop also noted that there
are now eight bars in the
boro and this one would
make nine. :
Council said the nine
bars have been in existance
for quite some time and as
long as the State Liquor
Control Board allows the
linceses there is nothing
they can do about it. The
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July 14, 1976
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