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Vol. 76 No. 33 August 18, 1976
Susquehanna Times & The Mount J
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MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, . . ..
Marietta to get medical building
St. Joseph Hospital plans
to build a new satellite
clinic building for the
Marietta and Maytown
area.
Authorities at the hospi-
tal have said that the new
building will be located at
the corner of Route 441. and
Joe Balt’s
darkroom
is a time machine
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Joe Balt in his darkroom.
Most people in Maytown
know about Joe Balt’s
expertise as a watchmaker.
His brilliant restorations of
complex antique clocks
have been written up in big
Philadelphia magazines.
What a lot of people
don’t know is that Joe is
also skilled at restoring
antique photographs.
Joe began restoring old
photos when a friend gave
him some old glass neg-
atives that had been lying
around in an attic. After
reading a few books on
how to restore old pictures,
joe managed to produce
some sharp, clear prints of
local scenes and people.
Joe’s darkroom had
turned into a time machine.
Soon he was collecting all
the old negatives and
prints he could get his
hands on. What he can’t
buy, he tries to borrow
long enough to salvage.
There are several hun-
dred prints in his files
today. They show Civil War
soldiers parading near Col-
umbia, the flood of 1898 in
Marietta, the vanished
canal, and people in
strange costumes posing in
front of houses that haven’t
changed a bit.
“I like to bring back a
little history by preserving
these things,‘ Joe says.
He adds, ‘It’s time
consuming, and you have
to handle each photograph
with extreme care in order
to save it.” Sometimes,
Joe’s chemicals, filters,
and tender care work
seeming miracles on prints
that have faded into yellow
blobs. He has also become
skilled at soaking apart old
glass plates which time and
mildew have cemented
together.
Two of photographs Joe
salvaged are reproduced on
the back page of this
newspaper.
Bank Street and will cost
about $295,000.
Final acquisition of the
lot at Route 441 and Bank
Street cannot be made by
the hospital until it is
approved by the Health
Resources Planning and
Development, Inc. of South
Central Pennsylvania. The
agency plans to study the
project immediately. People
in the Marietta-Maytown
area served by the propos-
ed clinic may submit com-
ments within 10 days.
The clinic should be in
operation by March, 1977.
The current Marietta-
Maytown clinic is located in
the former Dr. Michael
Gratch offices in Maytown.
It is open Monday, Wed-
nesday and Friday from 10
a.m. to 6 p.m. and Tuesday
and Thrusday from 10 a.m.
to 8 p.m. and is staffed by
12 doctors under the direc-
tion of Dr. Dale Boyd.
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the town picnic.
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200 ‘‘Joy Bucks”
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Marietta-Maytown area picnic
will feature races & talent show
A community picnic,
sponsored by the Marietta,
Maytown, and East Done-
gal Bicentennial committee
will be held Saturday,
August 21 from 1 to S
p.m., at Marietta War
Memorial Park. Rain date
for the event will be
Sunday at 1 p.m. Tickets
may be purchased at
Spangler’s Appliance Store
for the chicken bar-b-que
dinner to be served at S
p.m.
Jaycees want Marietta to star in
Almost Anything Goes TV show
Marietta Jaycees are
sponsoring the Great Ad-
venture Fun Olympics
featuring the nationally
popular ‘‘Almost Anything
Goes’’ roadshow. A team
will be chosen to partici-
pate in a preliminary con-
test in Jackson, New Jer-
sey. If the Marieta team
wins, it will compete on the
‘““Almost Anything Goes’
national TV show.
Anyone between the
ages of 18 and 45 in good
physical health has a
chance to participate by
obtaining a ticket. At a
drawing at the JC center
on August 27, a team of
three men and three wo-
men, a coach, and two
alternates will be named.
Beginning September 7,
the festivities will begin in
Great Adventures Arena,
Jackson, New Jersey.
Marietta will receive
recognition thru the contest
and was the only town
chosen in Central PA to be
eligible. Communities are
catalogued according to
population and are eligible
for money prizes.
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Jaycees Taise a banner announcing Marietta’s pa
in TV fun olymptes.
cipation
The old fashioned picnic
will include pie throwing,
bag races, three leg races,
calliope music, hand dip-
ped ice-cream, and a talent
show at 4 p.m. Prizes for
the talent contest are
$25-first; $15-second; and
$10-third. The judge will be
Mrs. Isabell Russell.
The community chorus
wili present a special bi-
centennial program at 5:45.
The chorus, under the
direction of Mrs. Gerald
Libhart and accompanied
by Mrs. Margaret Miller,
will sing the following
numbers: Southern Con-
fort, Give Me Your Tired-
Your Poor, Lilli Marlene.
Patriotic Fantasy by George
M. Cohan, Battle Hymn of
the Republic, This is Our
Land, ‘‘America’’, Songs of
the American Revolution,
God Bless America and
This is My County. Donald
Kugle will serve as a
narrator for the program.
Five drawings for free
dinners will be awarded
and bingo will be super-
vised by the American
Legion. [Each person
attending is requested to
bring a lawn chair. Mrs.
Robert Demmey is chair-
person of the community
activity.
Dennis Shumacher is
chairman of the bicenten-
nial committee, Mrs. Hazel
Crankshaw is vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Robert Lombard
secretary, and John Heis-
tand, treasurer.
Bar-B-Que tickets may
be bought in the park for
$2.50, but only a limited
number are available.