Page 12—SUSQUEHANNA TIMES January 25, 1978
The big news: It snowed
Ice Jam
a poem by Chester Wittell,
the prolific and learned bard
of Mount Joy
Under the arch of wintry skies,
Bereft of motion, pulse and breath,
Silent and still the river lies
As in the lethal grip of death.
Mysterious powers, vague and dire,
Seem to preempt its glassy floor
And surreptitiously conspire
To stay its course from shore to shore.
Powers inimical and bold,
This isn’t really news any more, but it snowed last week. This photo was taken in Yet formless and ethereal,
Marietta, where snow plows began scraping the streets when the first flakes hit the Whose icy fingers grip and hold
ground. By morning, almost every car in town was buried, but once Mariettans Fluidity as in a pall.
shovelled out, they were able to drive down the cleanest streets in the county. As From lofty turrets looking down,
we went to press, snow removal crews were still working through the night. The wondrous prodigy to see,
The lonely hills in wonder frown
And stare uncomprehendingly
But be assured the river knows
And eftsoon straightly to the sea
Shall by the urge of melted snows
Consign this cryptic anarchy.
And at the coming of a day
That never yet has known the dawn,
Both ice and evil on their way
Shall be dissolved and gladly gone.
-Chester Wittell
Count your meteorological blessings
So you think it snowed Mount Rainier. That’s 85 ice. Snow flakes always
too much this week? 12 feet of snow. have six-way radial symetry
inches is nothing. On April and no two are alike. Some
14th, 1921, at Silver Lake, snowflakes consist of two
Meanwhile, down at the river, the ice-choked water started creeping toward front Colorado, it snowed 76 Snow forms in clouds flat flakes joined in their
street. The high-water mark was only a few feet from this boat at the Marietta Boat inches in 24 hours. In 1971 from water vapor. The middles by a hexagonal
Club. As we went to press, the river was slowly falling again. it snowed 1014.5 inches on vapor turns directly into column of ice.
Accidental business
It all started with a Christmas present she gave her
husband 6 years ago. ‘‘He was too busy to use it just
then,” explains Linda Good, shown above, ‘‘So I began to
use it.”
“It” was a set of leather working tools. By now both
Linda and her husband Leon, who live across the road
from the township building near Maytown, have many
more tools and put in up to 15 hours a week making belts,
wallets, pocketbooks, picture frames, and just about any
other thing you might want made out of leather.
‘““We worked so hard this Christmas that we broke our
big slab of marble into four pieces,’’ Linda told the Times.
(The marble is used for cutting and hammering.) :
Most the Goods’ Christmas work went for presents.
Linda made a hearing aid case for her father, Norman
‘““Hep’’ Houseal. ‘‘Handmade things are cheaper, and
people appreciate them more than presents that are
bought,’’ says Linda.
Linda, an elementary school teacher at Canadochly
School in York County, and Leon, a farmer, make -extra § :
money by selling their Good-made goods at fairs and to ¢ oy : em mnann
customers who want specially things made to order. If you ; :
want a custom belt or pocketbook, call them at 426-2181.
Incidentally, the tool box in the lower right of the photo
came from the old C.A. Straley Hardware store and
barness shop which used to be in the building now
occupied by Joe Balt’s clock shop. Linda told us that she
likes to pick up tools and leather at auctions and closings
of tack and harness shops. She gets them much cheaper
there.