77 >d le 1d =. ) oo 1t 1S 1, d co = nn «=< Vv w= (V » - V2 TR aN RALPIT M ReDos 2 MOUNT JOY, ONY DER BOX 3040 PA, 17552 SUSQUEHANNA '1 LIMES Vol. 77 No. 41 October 26, 1977 A Donegal High teacher has filed a complaint against the school district with the Pa. Human Relations Commission and the U. S. Equal Opportun- ity Employment agency. Joseph Siberski, who teaches English at the school, charged that he has been discriminated against because he is a Polish Catholic. He claims that he 1s one of only two Catholics on the 45 person high school teaching staff, and the only teacher with a Polish name. An instant millionaire? Joni Shank of Maytown is in the’ Millionaire Drawing of the State lottery this week. Herr’s Fruit Stand, which sold the ticket to Joni, will be a winner, too, if Joni’s number is chosen. MCA meeting The Maytown Civic As- sociation will hold a full membership meeting on Tuesday, November 1st, at 7:30 PM at the Township Municipal Building. The program will include the election of officers. Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA. DHS Teacher charges prejudice Joseph Siberski files complaint against Donegal Schools; claims his Polish-Catholic background is being held against him; school district denies charge Joe Siberski The school board’s soli- citor has drawn up a reply denying that Siberski has been discriminated against because of his religion or ancestry. Siberski, who says he ranks second in seniority in the English department, claims that first-year teachers have been handed teaching assignments which Siberski had re- quested. Siberski also charges that the principal, Donald Drenner, has not forwarded reports of Sib- erski’s voluntary, out-of- class activities to the schools superintendent with the same regularity with which Drenner sent reports about the extra activities of non-Catholic, non-Polish teachers. The complaint names as respondents; school board president Dale Arnold, superintendent R. F. Hallgren, Drenner, and assist. principal Harry West. ’67 class reunion The Donegal class of 1967 will hold its reunion on Oct. 29, 1977, at 7 PM at the Holliday Inn East, 1800 Hempstead Rd., Route 30, Lancaster. For more information call Betty Rinehart, 130 N. High St., Mount Joy (653-5584). Left to right: Dave Engle, chair, and Barry McFarland. Unique chair Dave Engle, a student at Donegal High, is making a different sort of chair. It's being carved from glued-up plywood. Dave’s shop teacher, Barry McFarland, was so impressed with Dave's chair that he called the Susquehanna Times to come over and take a look at it. ‘‘Here’s what an ingenious young fellow at DHS did with old wood scraps,’ Barry told us when we got there. Most of the chair is just that: scrap. Only the sides had to be cut from a large piece of ordinary % inch plywood, and the holes in the side pattern help fill in the seat and back. About one sheet of plywood is needed to make the chair. Dave, after gluing up the rough pieces, roughed out the form with a chainsaw. The crude cuts left by the saw teeth are smoothed with a ‘‘surform’’ tool (Dave is shown holding one in the photo), which is much like a kitchen grater with handles. When he gets done with the surform, he'll fill the exposed holes in the plywood and sand the chair with gradually finer grades of sandpaper, finally finishing with an oil finish. Barry has tried sitting in the roughed-out chair, and told us that it's very springy, like a metal pipe frame chair. “‘It’s the first wooden chair I've ever seen that has that feel,”’ he told us. Dave Engle is in the Vo-Tech program, studying welding. We hope he keeps up the wood work also. candidates Want to see, hear, and maybe meet your local school board candidates? You can on Thursday, October 27th (that’s tomor- row!) at DHS when the Donegal Education Assoc. holds ‘‘Candidates for School Director Night,”’ at 7:30 in the auditorium. All citizens are invited to hear the five candidates present their platforms and answer questions from the audience. The program’s format will parallel that of the FIFTEEN CENTS Meet school board League of Women Voters’ programs: Each candidate will answer two questions, (1) what is the district’s worst problem, and how would you solve it? (2) What do you feel are your qualifications to sit on the school board? After the hopefuls are grilled, the public will get 45 minutes to ask questions on any topic. Each candid- ate will then speak again. Remember. that’s tomor- row night. How do you like Mount Joy? The deadline is near for entering the ‘‘Mount Joy —my kind of town’’ essay contest, sponsored by the Mount Joy Merchants Association and the Mount Joy Chamber of Commerce. Since no one has yet sent his or her essay to the Times (we don’t know about the local merchants, who are also collecting manuscripts), if you do write you stand a good chance of getting a prize, of which there are $275 total. Why not give it a try? Here’s How: Sit down and think about your town, Mount Joy. Why are you proud of it? What do you really like about it? Why do you call it Home? Write down these thoughts and send them to the Sus- The Mount Joy Lions club will hold their semi -annual Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, October 29th, from 5:30 to 11:00 AM. The breakfast will be held at the activity building on the parking lot of the Mount Joy swimming pool. Plan to be there and eat those juicy sausages made by Neiss, Sprecher, Roth and Bender. Watch those pancakes being fried by Ricedorf, Derr, Staley, quehanna Times, Box 75A, RD1 Marietta, PA 17547, BOX 100. As long as it's legible and less than 200 words long, you may win a savings bond. In the upper right hand corner of the essay, put your name, age, address, and phone number. Essays must be in by Nov. 1st, so don’t delay. Should you win, your entry will be read on Sunday, November 13th at the Veterans’ Day parade sponsored by the United Veterans Council, which chose Mount Joy as the host town this year. The many visitors will see the face value of Mount Joy —but you know it goes deeper than that. So sit down and write. Lions will hold pancake breakfast Goodling, Grove, Wittle, Greider, and Gingrich, the batter of which is being mixed by Roberts and McKain! Juice and coffee will be served in style by Fitzkee and Barto. Tickets can be purchased in advance from Lions or at the door. If you missed this till now, come out and see the Lions in Action! Funds raised by the pancakes will go toward community projects.
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