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Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin
Vol. 78, No. 33, August 16, 1978
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The international set
in Mount Joy
Christine Erb came home
last week from visiting her
good friend, Maria Louisa.
B. de Oliviera, who lives in
Sao Paulo, Brazil, to find a
young man trom the
Netherlands, Jan Jansen,
visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Wilbur N. Erb, of
RD1 Mount Joy.
Jan has been living and
working on the Erb farm
for the past month as part
4-H
of an International
Youth Exchange.
Chris Erb
Jan is not a member of
4-H, but belongs to an
allied organization, the
Country Youth Community
of the Netherlands. Six
other young people from
the Netherlands were stay-
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Jan Jansen
ing on different farms in
this area at the same time.
They would occasionally
get together in the evening
and make a trip to the
Landis Valley museum.
Jan is from a town called
Garmerwolde in the Ne-
therlands. A canal flows
through the area. On one
side of the canal are towns-
people, on the other side
farms. The main crops are
grain, potatoes, and sugar
beets. Recently the farmers
near Jan's home have tried
to grow corn, but not too
successfully; the growing
season is too short there,
Jan thinks.
Jan’s father does not
farm, but trucks agricul-
tural produce to the large
cities. Jan expects to enter
the family business in two
years, after he completes a
two-year business course.
He has just graduated from
high school.
Jan’s English is fluent.
He learned it in school,
where it is a required
subject, and from watching
American TV shows like
“Kojak.”
Asked what he thinks of
America, he says Ameri-
cans are more spontaneous
than Europeans, more apt
to ‘“‘tell you all about their
private lives’’ on short
acquaintance. He also
found his hosts to be
conservative, and religious;
e.g., ‘opposed to smoking
and drinking.”’
Before he came to
America he thought all
Americans were rich and
modern. He expected to
. find more advanced agri-
cultural machines. But he
says he did not find
Americans any richer or
more up-to-date than the
people of the Netherlands.
He left last week for
Washington, DC, from
whence he’ll fly to New
York and then home to
Garmerwolde.
DID YOU HEAR....
*“The Cross & the
Switchblade’’ will be show-
ing free at the Marietta
Theater on Thursday night
at 7.
MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA.
East Donegal Jaycees
to meet in Maytown
An organizational meet-
ing for the formation of an
East Donegal chapter of
the Jaycees will be held on
Wednesday, August 16, at
the MYO building (the old
Legion building) in May-
town at 8:00 PM.
All young men, 18 to 35
years old, who live in East
Midgets win
With Barry Etsell at the
helm, Darrel Risberg and
Bob Wilkinson on the
mound, and a full crew of
heavy hitters marching to
the plate, Mount Joy won
the Junior Midget title in
the New Era baseball
tournament last week, by
sinking Manheim 7-2 at
Donegal or Maytown, are
invited to attend this
meeting, for information on
Jaycee fellowship and com-
munity service.
Anyone who is interested
but it unable to attend this
meeting should call Bob
Stoner at 653-4395.
Kunkle Field. (On Moday,
the boys collected their
reward—a free trip to
Philly).
Rightfielder Scott Peters
walloped two homers over
right-center, and leftfielder
Steve Hecker dropped
another home run into the
same general area.
Junior Auxiliary planned
The Marietta Auxiliary to
the Pioneer Fire Company
is planning to start a Junior
Auxilary.
Any girl aged 1S through
17, who wishes to join,
should contact an auxiliary
member, or come to the
Sept. 11 meeting at 7:30
PM at the fire house.
The auxiliary is spon-
soring a bus trip to the
Berkshire Mall on Sept. 30.
The cost of the tour is $S.
For more information call
426-3644.
Pretzels in decorated
cans are still available to
the public. Fancy assort-
ment cans cost $3.50; the
small ones are $2.75. To
get one, call 426-1622.
Twp. Supervisors meet
The East Donegal Super-
visors received two bids on
dump trucks at their last
meeting. The bids will be
reviewed.
Low bidder was Henry
Martin of Lancaster, at
$26,111 for a new Interna-
tional dump truck. The
other bid, at $29,722, was
submitted by David K.
Whissler of Lebanon.
In other business the
supervisors awarded a con-
tract, for $17,290, to low
bidder Stewart and Shaffer
for the installation of a
traffic light at Routes 441
and 743 near Marietta.
A bid of $18,880 had
been submitted by
McMinn’s of Lancaster.
A bid of $4000 for a
central hydraulic ‘cinder
spreader was accepted.
Arthur Seigler was ap-
pointed to the Board of
Adjustment, filling the pos-
- ition of John Wenger, who
resigned.
The Ladies Auxiliary of
the Maytown Fire Company
“were given the go-ahead on
planning a banquet hall
next to the fire station.
scalps
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Seouls Kim » Funk teal bag] and Dana Yingst [T-shirt]
were two of the 115 girls who heard about Indians.
Heap big Indian expert
in Mount Joy
Charles Dorwart, of Lan-
caster, an authority on
American Indian lifestyle
and lore, shared some of
his knowlege with 115
members of the Donegal
Neighborhood Girl Scouts
in Sico Park last week.
He appeared in the
ceremonial dress of a
Sioux chieftain, which he
had made himself, com-
plete with an eagle-feather
war bonnet. The feathers,
he explained, signified
courage and strength, and
the bonnet supposedly gave
wisdom and good luck to
the wearer.
Mr. Dorwart told the
girls that, contrary to the
general opinion among
white people, Indians did
not invent the practice of
scalping dead enemies.
That custom, he said,
originated with white
Puritans in New England,
who offered bounties for
dead Indians, and required
as proof. (Scalps
were also handed over to
the government as proof
that predators, like wolves
and mountain lions, had
been killed, in exchange for
money).
Another misguided idea
about Indians, Mr. Dorwart
said, is the notion that
most of them lived in
teepees. The teepee was
invented after the white
man had introduced the
horse to North America.
Before that, the plains
Indians lived in stationary
mud or wood homes.
Under the direction of
Nancy Kopf, Ella Gainor
and Sharon Marley, the
Girl Scouts spent a week in
Sico Park. They divided
themselves into various
encampments: The Swamp
Scouts, the Lily Pod,
Sunset, Weeping Willow,
Whispering Winds, Silent
Waters, Running Doe,
Indian Squad, Sweet Wine,
Cherokee Squaws and
Twelve Little Indians.