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The winner of the first
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tributed the story about the
Rainbolts’ 40th anniversary
which appears at the top of
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SUSQUEHANNA TIMES
Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin
MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA.
Vol. 78, No. 24, June 14, 1978
FIFTEEN CENTS
Barry McFarland, DHS shop teacher, poses with a set
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of hollow, nesting wooden eggs he made on his lathe.
‘People are fascinated by eggs,”” Barry says. He made
the table also, from a solid slice of a tree.
He’s got the
Osage Orange market
cornered
When Barry McFarland
went to Millersville State
College in the mid-sixties,
he thought he was going to
be an historian. Then he
took an Industrial Arts
class, and it changed the
course of his life.
Today a visitor to Barry’s
home near Manheim can
hear the story behind every
piece of furniture in it.
Almost all of it was made
by Barry from wood he cut
himself from logs.
His kitchen table is a
solid hunk of a tree, 24
inches wide and 7 feet
long. “‘It would have been
42 inches wide, but I made
a mistake,”’ Barry says.
The wood stove’s fuel is
contained in a wood box
which visitors guess to be a
hundred years old, but it’s
only S five years old, made
by Barry. Above the table
is a stained-glass lamp he
made.
Barry teaches woodwork-
ing at Donegal High and
spends his spare time
doing and learning on his
own. 90% of his life is
wood—cutting it, gluing it,
buying it, selling it, and
collecting it.
Barry’s fascination with
wood must be innate,
because his family back-
ground certainly didn’t
prepare him for a life of
crafting wood. ‘‘I didn’t
take shop in high school
‘because my father didn’t
approve of it,”’ Barry re-
calls. ‘‘My father was an
accountant, and he never
had anything fixed, and
couldn’t fix anything him-
self. We didn’t have any
tools in the house. I don’t
think we had even a screw-
driver.”
Barry served in the Navy
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Inside:
DHS graduation |
Story on page 7
Marietta Fire Co.
will conduct fund drive drive
The Marietta Volunteer
Fire Company will conduct
a door-to-door fund raising
campaign in the Borough of
Marietta from June 13
through 30.
The purpose of the drive
is to raise enough money to
purchase a new 4000 gallon
pumper with 4000 gallon
booster tank and automatic
foam system.
According to fire chief
Ken Geesey, the present
The 3rd annual Miss
‘Mount Joy scholarship
pageant will be held on
June 24 at 8:00 PM in the
Donegal High auditorium.
It is sponsored by the
truck (a 1947 pumper)
needs $8000 worth of
repairs. He hopes to
replace this vehicle and
sets the campaign goal at
$51,000.
Groups of volunteer fire-
men will canvas the
borough in the evenings
from about 6:30 to 8:00.
They will easily identified
as each group will be
riding a piece of fire
fighting equipment.
Miss Mount Joy tickets available
Mount Joy Jaycees.
Tickets can be had by
calling Jim McAfee at
653-2713, or Gary Graybill
at 653-1642, or Rob Stoner
at 653-4395.
Supervisors meet
The East Donegal Town-
ship supervisors met last
week. Chairman John H.
Brubaker opened the meet-
ing with a prayer.
Seven permits for new
structures were issued. The
fire company reported 17
calls, and property damage
amounting to $50.
The supervisors granted
a request by the Maytown
Civic Association for the
supervised summer play-
ground from June 26
through August 4th in the
park.
Park benches will be
repaired, and the basket-
ball and tennis courts will
be resurfaced. Portable rest
rooms will be used this
summer. (Permanent ones
are planned sometime in
the future).
The supervisors will
investigate the idea of
‘bricking up the front of the
fire house.
Mount Joy calendar
The Mount Joy calendar:
June 14: Community Coun-
cil meets 7:30 PM.
June 20: Mount Joy Joycee
-ettes covered dish social:
6:30 Lions meet.
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Donegal School District
congratulated
The state comptroller has
congratulated Donegal
School District on the
accuracy of the districts
account-keeping during
1975 and 1976. The state
found no mistakes whatso-
ever—a rare occurence in
any district, or any year.
(The congratulations ar-
rived in 1978 because the
state, which audits so
finely, also grinds ex-
ceeding slow.)
At the next local board
meeting, scheduled for
Thursday at 8 PM at the
District Office, the board
will:
—adopt the new budget
—set salaries for non-
union staff members
—consider ratifying an
agreement with the custo-
dians’ union
—set the new school
calendar
—name next year’s
coaches (little change from
last year is expected)
The board will also
consider a new system for
hiring substitute teachers,
using the Pa. State
Employment Service as an
intermediary. The new
system, a brainchild of
superintendent Ragnar Hal-
gren, may save the district
both time and money.
Plans for financing and
executing repairs to the
school buildings will be
carried forward, and bids
on new business machines
will be awarded.