The Susquehanna Times
is saddened as it goes to
press to learn of the death
of Dr. Newton E. Kendig.
Dr. Kendig was an inte-
gral part of our community.
His loss is deeply felt by
‘many.
SNYDER
SUSQ
Vol. 77 No. 20 June 1, 1977
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Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin
MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA.
Stan Curry —again!
Donegal teachers held a surprise banquet at Groff’s Farm Restaurant last week in
honor of school nurse Sadie Brooks. Photo shows teacher Walt Price giving Sadie a
goodbye present. At far left is Sadie’s daughter, Pat Eichler. At far right is
daughter Betty Eidemiller. Walt and Sadie are in the center.
Goodbye Sadie Brooks
(She’s not retiring. She’s going to work
in the wild mountains of Central America.)
Sadie Brooks is leaving
Donegal School District
after 29 years as school
nurse. Instead of retiring,
she plans to head for the
wild mountains of British
Honduras, where she’ll be
working in a remote child-
ren’s hospital.
Brooks has served
volunteer in the
Central American nation,
where malnutrition is the
leading cause of death. She
hopes that, by teaching
principles of nutrition and
sanitation to the villagers,
she can help improve the
situation.
That sounds like a tough
Mrs.
as a
assignment, but genera-
tions of Donegal students
have learned that Sadie
Brooks can handle almost
any problem that comes
her way.
Mrs. Brooks says, “If
Mr. Public thinks a school
nurse’s job is handing out
aspirin and band-aids, he is
wrong.”’
students sometimes get
pregnant, contract venereal
diseases and freak out on
drugs, Mrs. Brooks points
out. “‘In most cases, the
parents should be advised
of their child’s problem,”
Mrs. Brooks says. It’s the
school nurse’s job to talk to
the parents. Sometimes
they don’t want to hear the
bad news. One distraught
parent met Mrs. Brooks at
the door with a gun in his
hand.
Mrs. Brooks is a grad-
uate of Lancaster General
Hospital and West Chester
State College. She has
done graduate work at
Millersville. She is a
member of the Mount Joy
Welfare Board and the
Glossbrenner United
Methodist Church. When
she isn’t working, she
gardens, rides horses,
plays piano and organ,
reads and does needlework.
She has two daughters
and five grandchildren.
New shopping center
A $2.5 million shopping
center is planned on route
230 between Mount Joy
and Elizabethtown. Devel-
oper Frank A. Nardo of
York said the 97,000 square
foot center will include a
Jamesway discount depart-
ment store, a Safeway
supermarket, and a drug
store. It is estimated that
the three stores, in opera-
in Mount Joy
Construction to begin this summer
tion, will employ about 125
workers. Parking for S50
cars will be provided.
Preliminary approvals for
the project have been
received from West Done-
gal Township, and the
plans are now under review
by the Lancaster County
Planning Commission.
If necessary governmen-
tal approvals are received,
construction is expected to
begin in the late summer,
with occupancy scheduled
for the Spring of 1978.
Nardo, who has pre-
viously developed shopping
centers in Red Lion and
Carlisle, said he is con-
vinced that his first Lan-
caster County project is in
‘‘a definite growth area.”
Stan Curry has done it
again.
Last week Stan won the
440 yard race at the PIAA
Track and Field Champion-
ships at Shippensburg,
making him the fastest in
the state. His time of 47.4
was the fifth fastest in the
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PA.
nation this year (he is tied
with a high school runner
in Texas). The National
record this year is 46.4; the
all-time record is 45.8.
Stan won a gold medal,
and so did Donegal’s two
-mile relay team with a
MIES
FIFTEEN CENTS
time of 7:58.4. The team is
composed of Phil
Mitzkavich, Darryl
Houseal, Richard Keener,
and Henry Klugh.
Next Saturday Stan will
compete in the National
competitions in Atlanta,
GA.
Patently good business
Ee
es.
7
Linn Longenecker holds part of a Vis-A-Lens crayon set in his company head-
quarters in Mount Joy (in the Kinsey Archery building). Spread on the table are
some of his Christmas cards, unfolded. Notice the die-cut holes in them.
Linn Longenecker is
starting a new business in
Mount Joy.
His ‘‘Vis-A-Lens’’ firm
will sell greeting cards,
paint sets, calendars, and
childrens’ books which
don’t seem to be products
that have a great deal in
common with each other,
until you see how Linn
approaches them in his
unique (and patented) fash-
ion.
The basis of Linn’s
approach is overlays -
plastic sheets that fold over
a printed page to change
certain areas, like the frog
diagrams in biology texts
(the ones that show first
the outside of the frog,
then various internal layers
as you fold back the plastic
sheets). Linn has patents
granted or pending on all
his products.
Linn Longenecker (who
is, incidentally, Miss
Lancaster County Gloria's
dad) got his first patent in
1956, on his paint set idea.
“It was the logical next
thing after paint by the
numbers,’’ he says. Linn’s
paint sets start with an
outlined scene, like the old
number sets, but use
transparencies to guide the
fledgling artist. ‘‘You’d
start painting the sky, and
flip the overlay over on top
of it for comparison as you
go along,” Linn explains.
The sky overlay is translu-
cent, so that the artist's
work shows thrcugh it;
both scenes are simultan-
eously visible. ‘The Vis-A-
Lens paint set works in the
same progression that a
real artist uses for an
original painting. The
background and sky go on
the board first, then the
foreground objects,” Linn
told us. Linn knows about
real artists - he is one
himself. His work hangs on
walls all over the area.
Linn sees the Vis-A-Lens
paint sets (which come in
watercolor, crayon, and oil
paint forms) as suitable for
people who are beyond
painting ‘by the numbers’,
but are not quite ready to
envision their own scenes
and master perspective. He
told us that many of his
sets are already in use for
occupational therapy.
The same overlay princi-
pal is used in his calendars
(which show one scene that
changes through the sea-
sons by flipping four over-
lays, one for each season)
and the children’s books.
Linn showed us one book
that outlines the creation.
The original scene shows a
mountainous desert, but
each succeeding overlay
adds trees, then (fruits,
then animals, etcetera,
until the desert becomes
Eden.
The Vis-A-Lens greeting
cards don’t use overlays,
but are die-cut. Turning a
page changes the scene
and adds some poetry. Linn
could probably sell his
patent on this to a large
company like Hallmark for
several hundred thousand
dollars, but he plans to
keep it for Vis-A-Lens.
“Cards are big business,
and the makers are always
looking for something a
little different, to give them
an edge,”’ he says. Then,
he adds, “We're going into
business with gusto!”