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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.
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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.