Want to gripe to your
congressman about some-
thing? Bob Walker's
mobile office will be in the
area this week.
On Monday, the con-
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gressional van will be in
Bainbridge from 10:00 to
12:00; on Wednesday (the
11th) in Mount Joy from
1:15 to 3:30; and on
Monday the 16th, in
Marietta from 1:15 to 3:30.
Vol. 78 No. 1 January 4, 1978
The Lancaster County
Planning Commission and
the Redevelopment Au-
thority of the County of
Lancaster will hold five
public meetings on the
Lancaster County Com-
munity Development Pro-
gram (CDP). The CDP is a
Federally-funded program
designed principally to
benefit low and moderate
income citizens. The meet-
ings are to inform the
public aboyt the CDP, to
hear citizens’ opinions on
needs in the County which
can be addressed by the
CDP, and to guide the
County in selecting projects
to be funded under the
CDP. The meetings will be
held as follows: Wednes-
day, January 4, Ephrata
Marietta
Ken and Linda Ross, of
67 W. Fairview Ave.,
Marietta, are confirmed
historic preservationists
and restorationists. Moved
by a desire to ‘‘soft-sell”’
Marietta’s architectural as-
sets, they recently put
together 156 color slides,
shot by Ken, together with
music and narration. The
resulting slide show, entitl-
ed Marietta: An Architec-
tural Gallery, was shown
during the Candlelight
Tour at the United Church
of Christ in Marietta, and
was shown again last week
to a small group at St.
John’s Episcopal.
‘““‘About 400 people saw
it during the tour,” Ken
Ross told the Times, ‘‘but
most of them were from
out of town. So we're
showing it here at St.
John’s tonight, and we'll
show it in town again.”’
The slide show is divided
into several parts, each
artfully titled by Linda (an
art teacher at DHS) on a
slide. The first part shows
general impressions of
Marietta. The second con-
sists of old photos of the
town, which were lent to
Ken and Linda by Dr.
John Brown and Earl
Marley. The third section,
accompanied by melan-
cholic music, shows decay-
Senior High School ‘‘Aud-
ion,”” 803 Oak Boulevard,
Ephrata, 7:30 p.m.; Thurs-
day, January S, Solanco
High School cafeteria,
Robert Fulton Highway,
Quarryville, 8:00 p.m.;
Monday, January 9, Blue
Ball Fire Hall, Route 322,
Blue Ball, 7:30 p.m.;
Tuesday, January 10,
Lancaster County Court-
house Sixth Floor Confer-
ence Room, SO North Duke
Street, Lancaster, 1:30
p.m.; and Thursday, Jan-
uary 12, W.I. Beahm
Junior High School dining
room, South Poplar Street,
Mount Joy, 7:30 p.m.
Anyone unable to attend
these meetings can still
express his opinions about
slide show
ing historic structures and
demolitions. The fourth
part of the show shows
scenes of restoration work
and houses nicely fixed up.
The music in this part is
cheerful.
The music for the entire
show was taken from Burt
Bacharach’s score for the
film Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid.
Using an inherently
limited medium, the Rosses
have done a good job of
“soft-selling’” Marietta’s
architecture. The show kept
the interest of a Times
reporter who, when he was
asked by Ken Ross if he
had ever noticed the many
interesting third floors in
Marietta, had to answer
that he had never noticed
even the second floors.
After the show, Father Red
pronounced it “‘tastefully
done.”
The Rosses, who put in
several hundred hours
taking photos, writing and
recording narration, and
setting up the automatic
slide changing mechanism
(it’s triggered by the sound
track), were assisted by
Bob Spangler with the
electronics, and supported
‘‘spiritually’’ by the Mari-
etta Restoration Associates.
Prior to the Ross’es slide
show, a shorter one was
Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin
MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA.
$10,000,000 is coming
and Marietta, maybe Mount Joy, have a chance at some of it
the CDP; please contact the
Lancaster County Planning
Commission, S50 North
Duke Street, P.O. Box
3480, Lancaster 17604
(299-8333) or the Redevel-
opment Authority of the
County of Lancaster
(394-0793).
Following these meet-
ings, there are a number of
other steps in the applica-
tion process. First, all
Funding Request forms
submitted as an application
for a share of CDP funds
are due at the Redevelop-
ment Authjority during the
week January 16-20. Sec-
ond, committees will be set
up to review these Re-
quests. Anyone willing to
donate some of his time
and effort for this purpose
is asked to call the
Planning Commission.
Third, after committee
review of the Funding
Requests is completed, the
recommendations of the
committees, staff, and
others will be passed on to
the Redevelopment Au-
thority and the Lancaster
County Commissioners.
Finally, these and other
comments will be consid-
ered in the formal and final
review by those two bodies
before an application for
funds under the CDP is
submitted to HUD.
This entire process con-
tinues from January to
May, with program imple-
mentation expected to
begin in August of 1978.
RALPH M
R.De
MOU LY
JOY,
NYY ER
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17552
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PA.
UEHANNA 1 1tMES
FIFTEEN CENTS
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Poll:
What papers
are most popular?
Subscribers to a local
community weekly news-
paper prefer reading it to
reading city dailies, Sunday
newspapers, or a weekly
advertising publication
which is circulated free.
They prefer the commu-
nity weekly both for news
and for advertising.
The preferences for the
community weekly were
revealed in a survey
conducted by marketing
students at Elizabethtown
College among subscribers
to The Elizabethtown Chro-
nicle.
When asked how much
news and how much
advertising they like in a
paper 60 per cent of the
people said they liked a
paper to have more news,
including community news,
than advertising. Forty per
cent said they liked a paper
to have equal amounts of
news and advertising. No
one said they liked a paper
that contained more ads
than news."
And here are the
percentages of people pre-
ferring to look at advertis-
ing in each paper:
E-town Chronicle 42%
New Era 18
Intell. Journal 12
Merchandiser 12
Sunday News 9
Patriot,Eve.News 6
Press & Journal 1
Here are the percentages
of people expressing a
preference for papers cir-
culated in the Elizabeth-
town area:
E-town Chronicle 37%
New Era 22
Intell. Journal 14
Patriot,Eve.News 12
Press & Journal 3
Merchaudiser 2
Most people, 65 per
cent, said they pay more
attention to a large ad than
to a small ad. 1
Father Red with Linda and Ken Ross before the show in the Episcopalian Church. Ken took all the photos.
presented by the Sunday
School students of St.
John’s. This show, which
told the story of the
Nativity, was made up of
crayon drawings, narration.
and occasional group sing-
ing. A girl on the tape said
“Bing!”’ to indicate slide
changes. Mrs. Rutherford
and Mrs. McKain directed.
Betty Anderson, John
Arnold, Tracy Hoffmaster,
and Darlene Hoffmaster
were all given gifts in
recognition of their Sunday
school services. Father Red
also received a gift.