i Page 2 - SUSQUEHANNA TIMES Merry Chnistmas from Wondin, Rick. Gow, Buick, & Boats While the season of joy and peace is upon us, we wish to express our sincerest thanks to all our faithful customers. MILLER’S Mobil’ SERVICE Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year “lr { \ Jrom Gary & the Gang at | l/ : YOUNDT’S MEAT MARKET ~ 119E. Market St., Marietta — 426-1245 ~_ OPEN ‘DAILY 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. SHARP'S DISTRIBUTORS Beer & Ale Porter & Soft Drinks 10 Decatur St., Marietta—426-3918 EMERGENCY is MEDICAL CALLS Saturday Afternoon and Sunday Nortanco Health Center (Mpunt juy Area Only) SUSQUEHANNA TIMES ICAL SERVICES Available Day & Night COLUMBIA HOSPITAL 7th & Poplar (Emergency Entrance) Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin Box 75-A, R.D. #1, Marietta, PA 17547 Published weekly on Wednesday (50 issues per year) 426-2212 or 653-8383 Publisher— Nancy H. Bromer Editor— Rick Bromer Advertising Manager— Kathie Guyton Business Manager— Jody Bass Society Editor— Hazel Baker Staff — Pat Flowers Vol. 76 No. 51 December 22, 1976 Advertising Rates Upon Request Entered at the post office in Marietta, PA as second class mail under the Act of March 3, 1879 Subscription Rate: $6.00 per year {TIOIYIO[TIA] NEW CARS START AT $2789.00 Always a wide selection of import & compact used cars. ~ Lancaster Toyota- Mazda SALES AND SERVICE 5270 Manheim Pike Lancaster, Pa. 569-7371 —— T ED 316 E. Market St. Marietta Ruins Creative Craft Shop NOW OPENED Large Assortment of macrame beads & cord Also jewelry, baskets, batik & pottery MACRAME PLANTER KIT—$3.00 Excellent Christmas Gift Uncle Al's Cotamtic Shap 11 E. MAIN ST. MOUNT JOY 653-1901 December 22, 1976 ...local conservationist (cont’d) [continued from page 1] Fluttering flags by weath- ered tombstones set in neatly manicured oak groves attest to its status as a Revoluntionary War shrine. Until three years ago, however, the Donegal was anything but a proper trout stream—not that it was polluted, nor, thanks to the springs, had the water temperature become too high. But it was badly silted. Current-deflecting boulders, rocks, and gravel beds were long since cover- ed by eroded soil. The flow lacked sufficient aeration to furnish trout necessary oxygen. And the dearth of gravel rendered awuatic fly life virtually nonexistent. Spawning beds were nil. Restoration of much of the Donegal to its pristine state = resulted from the vision, dedication, labor of Ken Depoe. A dedicated angler and fly tyer, Ken, like most of his fraternity, felt constrained to win converts to it. His vocation presented a built- in opportunity. As an extracurricular course— ~ with no remuneration to himself—he started a fly- tying class at his high school. It was an immedi- ate success. The logical next step was to develop budding fly anglers. But where to use the flies? Trout water was too distant for class mem- bers under driving age— the vast majority. Ken knew enough about stream improvement to think the Donegal might be his answer, but an improve- ment project would take a lot of time. His duties teaching and as wrestling coach left him precious little. So he huddled with the fly-tying class, and as a result each boy enthusiasti- cally volunteer for year- round stream work.”’ ““...Owners of land bor- dering two contiguous miles of stream consented. The primary objective was the creation of a channel with sufficient current to promote flushing action. Silt could then be Washed from the steam bed. A series of gabions (wire- encased and anchored rock piles that jut at angles from bankside), dams, and stone deflectors were planned to accomplish the tlushing action. Within two weeks came the first in a series of gratifying phenomena. Along the mud-clogged bottom of the developing channel a streak of yellow- ocher appeared and widen- ed by the day. Here was gravel—the key to the stream’s rejuvenation. There was hope now for increased aquatic fly life and, as the clearing action reached bankside shallows, for potential spawning beds for the trout. During the initial stage an adequate supply of rocks was found along: the and stream, while logs for dams were scrounged from neighbors and friends. But as the job recommenced the following year, it be- came obvious that the need for materials dictated a major panhandling effort. Ken Depoe, Sam Hall, and interested friends sought contributions from area businessmen whose trade answered a specific need. Of crucial help, for ex- ample, was a local quarry. Not only was much needed rock supplied; it was trans- ported to streamside in company trucks. Throughout another summer Ken and his faith- ful crew sweated at their back-wrenching, knuckle- scraping job. More silt was rinsing away, and the current deflectors were aerating water. Glides Whispered over shallow log dams and broke on gravel beds into singing riffles that gurgled into eddying pools against the jutting gabions and deflectors. The Donegal was beginning to look and sould like a trout stream again. Still, the patience of teenagers can be short-liv- ed. Ken’s group had put in many consecutive months of drudgery. Ken thought ‘that interest might flag should the wetting of their flies be too long delayed. His rumination bore an idea certain to give his” boys their second wind, however: They would raise their own trout! The class chipped in and bought 300 brown and rainbow trout fingerlings. A farmer friend of Ken's permitted his springhouse to be used for trout rear- ing. Cared for by the class, the fish averaged 9 to 11 inches in nine months’ time, thanks to an amaz- ingly rich natural food supply in the spring’s raceway—shrimp, sow bugs, and ‘aquatic insect ...Jocal [continued from page 1] the Dutch Country’’ as well as two printings of a pre- vious guide to good eating. With his wife Grace, a professional artist, as din- ing partner, Steinmetz en- countered such diversions as a 1928 Packard in one restaurant’s lobby, a big splashing mill-wheel in another, and a dining room lined with color phots of wild mushrooms. Colonial dames, Dutch girls, Eng- lish toffs, and a Union Army sergeant served them. Oddities include a pizza made without toma- toes, a liqueur laced with flakes of real gold, and an Apple Daiquiri served up in a real Mason jar. The author observes that many people who once would have considered a restaurant dinner just as a life. The trout were dis- tributed in the improved stretch, and new finger- lings were bought for the springhouse.”’ ‘““...During the summer of 1967 a group of area trout angler—conservation- ists formed a chapter of Trout, Unlimited and elect- ed Ken Depoe president. Fittingly, it was named the Doneal Chapter of Trout, Unlimited. Using the Don- egal project as a guide, the group has begun another stream reclamation project in * southeastern Pennsyl- vania. The Pennsylvania Fish Commission eventually named the two miles of re- claimed Donegal Creek a Fly Fish Only stretch and included it in the state stocking © program. On Memorial Day, 1967, Gov- ernor Shafer visited the project, congratulated the Donegal Conservation Association adn received an honorary life membership. Those present at the ceremony might have pon- dered that this stream, like Scrooge’s Christmas, had been possessed of three ghosts—in this instance one of a delightful past, another of uncertain pre- sent, and finally one of a. promising future. Its first two ghosts represent, in microcosm, the lives of too many American trout streams. Like the Donegal, they once flowed clear, strong, and deep. Now, encroaching civilization renders them clouded, weak, and flat. But if they are not hopelessly pol- luted—many aren’t as yet—and if they possess springs cool enough to maintain temperatures no higher than the low 70’s, they do have the ghost of a bright future. All that’s needed to conjure it up is more people like Ken 'Depoe.”’ author curtain-raiser for an even- ing at the movies or the theatre or a sports event now enjoy making an entire evening of dining-out. Also, they like making a trip of it sometimes, so the distance to a restaurant may be an attraction rather than a deterrent. Ron Steinmetz believes today’s generation of kids reared with the ‘‘let’s eat out’ habit will be moving up the restaurant scale as they grow older. The 1977 Restaurant Guide is published by En- tertain, Inc., 8 East Lemon Street, Lititz, PA. NOTE The borough of Mount Joy informs us that the borough office issued a sign permit to the Every- thing and Plus store on Sept 14,.1976. ot re Ly Cy Cu CL ON) ee 0D ould + 7 A AN re BS CAS Th. toamh "0 Ph eb PA I, ee Gd 7 MD MM =
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