rr p———T—— —— Free classifieds Page 14 ajph HM. 24) SUSQUEHANNA TIMES Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA. Vol. 76 No. 46 November 17, 1976 FIFTEEN CENTS ‘Slave auction’’ at Vo-Tech The Future Farmers of America at Mount Joy Vo-tech have come up with a new fund-raising idea- slave auctions. Photo shows auctioneer Tracey Shaub selling two of her classmates into slavery. See story on page 3 for details. Cindy Charles to star in senior class play, ‘Meet Me in St. Louis,’’ this weekend The Senior Class of Donegal High School will be presenting ‘‘Meet Me in St. Louis,”” a three-act comedy, in the high school auditorium at 8:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, Novemer 19 and 20, 1976. The play dramatized by Christopher Serge] and taken from the book, Meet Me in St. Louis by Sally Benson, takes place in St. Louis, Missouri during the 1904 World’s Fair. Cast in the leading role of Rose Smith is Cynthia Charles. - In addition to the public performances of November Roving reporter Nick Bromer (center) gets his swine flu shot at Riverview last Sunday. “It didn’t hurt,”’ said Nick, who works for the Susquehanna Times, ‘‘but I was so scared, I bit my tongue.”’ Volunteers make Marietta swine flue program big success ‘“This is the most effic- ient operation I've seen yet,” said a red cross volunteer at Marietta’s phase 2 swine flu innocula- tion center. The vaccination center, at Riverview Elementary School, processed 300 people in its first hour of operation last Sunday. Volunteer coordinator Mrs. Dorcas Knorr said 19 and 20, a special performance will be held, free of an admission charge, on Thursday, Nov- ember 18, at 1:00 p.m. for all senior citizens of the Donegal area. Wittell’s symphony coming to Hershey The Hershey Symphony Orchestra will play the Heroic Symphony by Ches- ter Wittell this coming Sunday, November 21, at 3 p.m., in the Hershey Com- munity Theater. Mr. Wittell lives at 206 West Main Street, Mount Joy. He has composed an- other symphony, the Reo- mantic, which has been performed by the Reading Symphony, as well as a number of concerti, suites, and overtures for an entire orchestra. In addition, Wittell has written over a hundred pieces for the piano, twenty quartets and quintets, a- bout thirty compositions for voice, over ten pieces for guitar, and several hundred transcriptions and ar- rangements of the works of other composers. Wittell is also a poet. Best known of his poetic works is Saga of the Susquehanna. Selections from the SAGA have been published in the Susque- hanna Times. Wittell also wrote Ode to an Outhouse, a comic-serious poem, at the request of the Susque- hanna Magazine. The Ode appeared in the first ._ ze of the magazine last April. Composer and poet, Wittell is also a gifted linguist, entirely self taught. He has mastered most of the modern Europ- ean languages and is a student of Arabic litera- ture. Recently, he started teaching himself Russian. Wittell is in his eighties. made the Marietta program a smooth-running sucess. [continued on page 2] that the large number of volunteers, including a big contingent from the DEA, Richard Smedley, Jr., of Marietta, holds cotton on his vaccination while his daughter Amee poses for the Susquehanna Times camera. Richard decided to get a shot after reading about the epidemic of 1918. He had no doubts about the vaccine, although he hasn’t seen a doctor in two years.
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