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Circus!
The circus is coming to
town! Step right up, ladies
and gentlemen, young and
old, for the Roberts Bros.
Three-Ring Circus, at Mar-
ietta’s Memorial Park to-
morrow night, Thursday
the 21st, at either 6:00 or
8:00 p.m.
The circus is being
sponsored by the Pioneer
Fire Co. #1.
Chicken!
The ladies of the May-
town Fire Co. Auxiliary
have a good suggestion for
vour Saturday dinner on
July 30. They're planning a
chicken barbeque to start
at 3 p.m. on the 30th. The
barbeque will be held at
the Maytown Fire Hall.
Bonanza!
by J. Alan Szymanski
A Wholesale Bonanza
will be held on Saturday,
July 23 from 9 a.m. to 1:30
p.m., at St. Mary’s Church
349 E. Market St., Mari-
etta. This project is spon-
sored by Assumption
B.V.M. Church, Mount
Joy, in conjunction with an
yutdoor sale. It is part of
the local church’s special
services series.
I'he committee gratefully
acknowledges the assis-
tance provided by Steh-
man’s 1.G.A., Market Kart,
Acme Markets, and sever-
al distributors and whole-
salers. The sale is open to
the public.
Hindus!
The Hindu American Re-
ligious Institute (HARI) will
be sponsoring ‘‘India Nite’
at Penn State-Capitol
Campus on Saturday, July
30 at 8:p.m. in the campus
auditorium.
‘‘India Nite’’ is an even-
ing of Indian classical and
popular music and dance.
Donation is $3.00 per
person and will benefit the
HARI building fund for a
temple in Harrisburg.
For information and tick-
ets contact: C.N. Rao,
717-545-5891.
Cops and
Robbers!
The semi-annual Mariet-
ta police report is out. It
compares as follows with
the same period last year:
““Incidents’’ counted 642,
down from 675 last year;
offenses were down to 180
from 220; criminal arrests
declined to 64 from 81;
juvenile arrests went to 145
from 165; traffic arrests
were up to 132 from 100;
and ordiance violations shot
up from 42 last year to 84
this year.
There was one more
accident this year than
last—27.
Marietta Boro Council
postpones curbs, refuses bids
Marietta Borough Coun-
cil again rejected all bids
on reconstruction and re-
pairing of Front Street
(between Perry Street and
Waterford Avenue) at the
Thursday night meeting.
Council now plans to post-
pone the project until
Spring. A bid for curbing
installation was also reject-
ed.
The deadline for resi-
dents on the north side of
Front Street to install
curbing will be set back. A
committee of residents has
been formed, with Jack
Frey as chairman, which
will submit suggestions tc
Council.
Monies intended for the
Front Street repaving pro-
ject will be partially divert-
ed to other street projects.
The deficit will be made up
by the time the project gets
moving, according to Coun-
cil.
Two bids were recieved
for resurfacing Longeneck-
er Avenue and Mulberry
Street. Domenic Paving,
York, was awarded the
contract to be labeled
#77-2, as low bidder at
$4,357.75. This bid will be
submitted to Penn DOT for
approval.
Harold Kulman, with a
committee from Borough
Council, (Ken Ross, Dave
White and J. Robert Flan-
agan), will investigate the
possibilities of compiling
applications for Community
funds from Manpower Con-
sortium.
Council adopted a reso-
lution accepting sewage
facilities . for the Fairfax
Development at Essex St.
and Colebrook Rd. Fifteen
Supervisors
The Supervisor’s meeting
last Thursday was attended
by nine residents of Long
Lane in RD Mount Jjoy.
The residents had come
to request some form of
traffic control along their
stretch of the road, where
7-year-old Michael Car-
baugh was killed by a truck
several weeks ago. Gary
and Lois Carbaugh, the
boy's parents, were with
the group of residents.
The residents were hop-
ing for a lower speed limit
in front of their homes and
additional warning signs
(signs warning of danger-
ous conditions were put up
two davs after the acci-
dent). The present speed
limit is SS m.p.h.
The Supervisors told the
group that they had been
in Harrisburg earlier that
day but had not reached a
solution yet. They hope to
do something soon. Super-
visor Lloyd Fuhrman stated
that ‘‘if one thing doesn’t
work we'll try another.”
The Susquehanna Times
visited Long Lane and
sewer accounts were rated
as delinquent.
A request from Council
for funds for two additional
CETA employees have
been approved.
Margaret Gable, Colum-
bia R.D. #1, was appointed
Deputy Housing Officer. =
Of the four buildings
which were declared public
nuisances at the last meet-
ing, one (at Clay and
Front) is being demolished
and will be reconstructed.
A permit has been issued
for this. The other three
buildings are the subject of
negotiation between the
Borough Solicitor and the
owners.
The Pioneer Fire Com-
pany requested the use of
Memorial Park for a Flea
Market on August 27 with
the rain date for September
3. The Fire Co, will
sponsor a Circus on July
21.
Four way stop signs will
be erected at Mulberry St.
and Prospect Alley. Roger
Grimes, a representative of
the Department of Com-
munity Affairs, will explain
opportunities available for
Federal funding as a ses-
sion on Tuesday night, July
19, in the Council Cham-
bers. The meeting is open
to the public.
Residents in the 600
block of W. Market St. are
requesting an additional
Street light.
A proposed exit from
Clabell Inc. onto route #
441 has been rejected by
Lanc. Co. Planning Com-
mission as well as E.
Donegal Twp. and Marietta
Planning Commissions.
meet —residents ask for speed limit
made a rough estimate of
the stopping distance at the
point of the accident.
A car driver coming over
the crest of the hill from
the north (i.e., heading
from Rte. 141 toward Rte.
23) would not see the head
of a four-foot-tall child until
he was about 115 feet away
from the child. (This dis-
tance was paced off). The
speed limit of SS m.p.h. at
that point translates to 80.7
feet per second. Braking
distance for an average car
is at this speed roughly
300 feet, according to State
Police.
In other business at the
meeting, fire chief Charles
Johns told the Supervisors
that Maytown-East Donegal
Ambulance, Inc., has sep-
arated from the Fire
Company and is now inde-
pendent.
The Fire Company had
14 calls in June with 7
public service calls. S2 men
responded. Some members
were occupied in helping
carry water to Rheems
during the shortage.
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A new transportation
phenomenon has arrived in
Pennsylvania=‘mopeds’’.
Basically a bicycle with a
small gasoline engine at-
tached, mopeds can be
either pedaled, or driven.
or both. The motor and
your legs work together to
give extra power. Mechani-
cally, mopeds are simple
things.
Legally is another story.
The door was swung open
to mopeds by the new
motor code which went into
effect last July 1st, but the
new laws contain several
vague areas and quirks
which legislators are in the
process of ironing out.
Calls to various police
barracks and State agencies
are likely, at this point, to
turn up different answers
at each number. The Times
finally got the real low-
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Kathy Guyton on a moped (courtesy of Miller’s Mobil)
Mopeds are here
down from Representative
Ken Brandt. ‘‘There’s a
conflict between intention
and interpretation in some
parts of the new motor
code,”’ he said. Here's an
example:
The new code requires
registration of mopeds, but
mopeds are defined in such
a way that a lawn mower is
a moped. Don’t rush out to
get plates for your grass
shears, though; the new
law will be straightened out
soon.
If you buy a moped, you
will have to register it, at a
cost of six dollars per year.
Other points which
hopefully will be clarified
soon concern special oper-
ating licenses, insurance,
and helmets. Mr. Brandt
expects that none of these
will be required. You won’t
be allowed to drive a
is in front of the Carbaugh residence.
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Harrisburg confuses them
with lawn mowers
moped on either a four-lane
or limited-access highway.
You will need a valid
driver’s license, with or
without the ‘‘Y restriction”
which permits motorcycle
operation.
You can use your moped
for just about anything
else. Mopeds get up to 200
miles per gallon, go up to
2S m.p.h. on level ground,
and cost roughly $300 to
$600.
Mopeds must be equipp-
ed with certain lights and
reflectors, but factory mop-
eds should meet these
qualifications.
Mopeds can be pur-
chased locally at Miller's
Mobil in Marietta, and at
Strickler Imports or at
Rutt’s Appliances in Mount
Joy.
The scene of the accident on Long Lane, looking from the South. The foremost car
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