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UFO Se Mount Joy man says he has proof they exist — story on page 9
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Vol. 77 No. 47 December 7.1977
Do these people look like they believe in Santa Claus?
They are Robert and Terry Hubbard of Mount Joy, two
of the people we asked about Santa’s existence. Robert
says he was raised not to believe in Santa (his parents
felt that God is what Christmas is all about, not Santa),
and his wife believed once, but has since figured out
that Santa isn’t real. Robert believes in UFO’s. He is
20, she is 15 years old.
Do Mount Joy folk
believe in Santa ?
Susquehanna Times poll indicates
adults believe more often than kids
Does anyone still believe
in Santa Claus? In this
day of smashed illusions
and shaken faith in all our
traditions and institutions,
is there any hope for our
dear, but hopefully not
departed, Mr. Kringle?
To find out, the Sus-
quehanna Times went to
Mount Joy and conducted
a person in the street
interview. We asked every
one we came across if he
or she believed in Santa,
and if they said no, when
and how their belief had
been destroyed.
Strangely enough, more
adults said they believed
in Santa (if only in a phil-
osophical or metaphorical
way) than did the kids we
accosted.
Most of the kids said
that they had believed
up to a certain age,
usually six to eight, and
then had learned from a
more sophisticated friend
that Santa is a myth.
Others were told by their
parents, the same parents
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Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin
MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA.
The East Donegal Super-
. visors plan to cut taxes one
mill in 1978. Under the
proposed 1978 budget,
taxes will drop from 8 to 7
§ mills. |
Last year’s budget called
for $260,000 in expendi-
tures, but only $200,000
was actually spent. The
savings will be returned to
taxpayers this year in the
form of a tax break.
Increased wage and
taxes also
helped make the tax cut
possible, supervisor Lloyd
Fuhrman said.
There will be no cutback
in services as a result of
the tax break.
The proposed budget
includes:
— $123,957 for road
work
~ — $23,780 for the police
dept. (up from $19,350.)
— $8720 fer fire com-
pany maintainance and
operation (up about $1000)
The budget will be
adopted at a special
meeting on Dec. 12 at the
Township Building. Anyone
who wants to propose
changes or inspect the
budget should call Lloyd
Fuhrman before that date.
Siberski
to meet
School Board
Joe Siberski, the Donegal
High teacher who was fired
the other week, will
appear with his attorney, a
Mr. Scott, at the School
Board meeting next Thurs-
day at 8:30, according to
Superintendent Ragnar
Hallgren. Hallgren believes
that Mr. Scott is with the
PSEA. More next week.
Vo-Tech
open house
The Mount Joy Vo-Tech
Open House is scheduled
for December 9th, 7 to 9
PM. This is for parents and
prospective students.
David Kalmbach
Kalmbach’s dream
has come true in the Marietta Theater
Most people know that
the old silent movies shown
in the Marietta Theater are
accompanied by organ
music. How the 25-ton set
of pipes got there is less
well known, as is the man
who brought it: David
Kalmbach.
David, who is one of the
country’s top recording
engineers, an electronics
whiz and former rock star
with a never-used degree
in psychology, originally
bought the parts of the
Marietta Theater organ in
Grand Rapids and Chicago
in the sixties, dragged the
pipes around with him for
years, and finally as-
sembled the monster de-
vice after buying the
theater for that purpose.
“It was my dream to use
that organ for the purpose
it was designed for;
accompanying old movies,”’
he says.
David even dragged his
32 foot bass pipes with him
to Canada at one point.
‘““The border guards
thought I was nuts,’ he
says, admitting, ‘‘I’ve
always been a little wierd.”
Most people wouldn’t
carry an organ around the
country with them, it’s
true, but then, David
Kalmbach isn’t like most
people. His entire life has
been wrapped around
music and the instruments
which make it and record
it.
His chief skill is record-
ing, and to record you need
elecronics. David got start-
ed in this field at 14 when
he built a TV set from
scratch, using only a sche-
matic and components. By
18 he was chief radio
engineer at a major radio
station in Grand Rapids,
his home town.
He also played keyboard,
and by the age of twenty
David was organ player for
the rock group Shadows of
Night, which recorded the
million selling single of
the mid-Sixties, Gloria (the
lyrics were ‘‘G-L-O-R-I-A,
Gloooooooorr—Eeya!’’).
When Shadows of Night
broke up, David decided
that he would like to be a
recording engineer. The
only problem was that no
one would hire a person
without experience. (A
Actup
if you like it, here’s your chance
The Columbia Little
Theater will hold auditions
for its first production on
Saturday the 10th (this
week). They will be putting
on a show of The Hollow
by Agatha Christie. 6 men
and 6 women of varying
ages are needed. The
schedule will be light until
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radio engineer does a
different sort of work).
David overcame this
obstacle by starting his
own studio with money
from Gloria. The Great
Lakes=Recording studio, in
Grand Rapids, was design-
ed and built by him in a
year. He made all the elec-
tronics except the tape
machines.
‘‘1 was doing superior
work,”” David admits, and
with his contacts in pop
music, David was soon
doing a booming business.
‘‘I recorded The Nazz,
American Bread, Crow, the
Buckinghams, MCS, Frigid
Pink, and a bunch of
other people at that time,”
David says. ‘‘The Nazz was
Todd Rundgren’s group.
He was less cocky in those
days, before he became a
super star.’’
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after-the holidays.
To audition, go to the
Park School Auditorium
between noon and 3 PM. If
you can’t make that, call
Duane Peters at 684-7282.
You don’t have to live in
Columbia.
The play itself will show
on Feb. 2, 3, 4, and S.