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Barb Reuter/Pam Kaylor and Gordon Groome/
Greg Eshleman win Mount Joy doubles tourney
The fifth annual Mount
Joy Tennis Club Doubles
Tournament was held re-
cently. The winners of the
womens’ doubles were
Barb Reuter and Pam
Kaylor who beat Lynn
Gerhart and Joan Costello
in two sets, 6-3 and 6-1.
To reach the finals the
winners defeated two
teams:Betsy Nikolaus/Kitty
Markley, and Chris Gra-
ham/June Edwards. The
runners-up defeated Karen
Bashore/Marie Edelen and
Mae Greider/Pat Millers.
There were eleven teams
entered in the women’s
division.
The doubles team of
Gordon Groome and Greg
Eshleman defeated Dick
Treiss and Fred Armstrong
with scores of 6-1 and 6-4
to take top honors for the
men. Groome and Eshle-
man had previously beaten
the teams of Ritravato and
Zink, Kauffman, & Hinkle,
and Hallgren and Hallgren.
Treiss and Armstrong had
defeated the teams of
Witmer and Fellenbaum
and Roberts, and Sickman
and Nissley to reach the
finals. Twenty-five men’s
teams had entered in this
division.
The Tennis Club is
organizing a tournament
for the Donegal area resi-
dents which will include
the following: women’s
singles and doubles, men’s
singles and doubles and
mixed doubles. The dates
for this tournament are
September 23, 24, 30 and
October 1. For further
information please contact
Bill Houseal - 653-5994,
Chris Graham - 653-4816
and Marianne Coover -
426-2156.
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Left to right, Jean Costello, runner-up; Lynn Gerhart, her partner; Pam Kaylor, winner,
Barb Reuter, winner.
Left to right: Dick Treese, Fred Armstrong, Greg Eshleman, and Gordon Groom.
Monster stringbean in Marietta
Above, Charles Scholl, of 319 Essex Street, Marietta,
holds one of his giant California Bean pods. The plant
towers far over his head; it has numerous pods.
“lI haven’t seen one in
fifteen .years,’”’ says
Charles Scholl of his giant
bean plant, which is so big
that it is almost threatening
to take over his back yard.
‘Another fellow told me he
hadn’t seen one in forty
years,” Mr. Scholl contin-
ued, during an interview
last Monday.
Standing in the shadow
of the huge vegetable,
whose tendrils snaked fif-
teen feet from the roots
along the ground, and
clambered another (fifteen
feet up an entire side of an
evergreen tree, our re-
porter heaved a sign of
relief when he discovered
that the plant was not some
new mutation. He had
imagined the plant cov-
ering the entire township
with three-foot stingbeans.
‘““We got the seed for it
from a fellow we ran into in
the mountains last year,’’
Mr. Scholl explained to our
reporter, adding coversa-
tionally, ‘We're from the
mountains originally. We
moved to Marietta on
December 17, 1944.”
He and his wife, Helen,
are both retired from
Wyeth Labs. They have
three daughters: Loretta,
the wife of Joe Portner,
Marietta; Gloria, the wife
of Richard McKain, Mari-
etta; and Gladys, the wife
of Eugene Filmore, Craley,
PA. They also have 11
grandchildren and 2 great
-grandchildren.
‘““What’s inside those
pods?’’ asked our reporter
nervously.
“It’s pretty much like an
eggplant,’”’ replied Mr.
Scholl, who appeared to be
totally unafraid of the giant
bean. “You can fry it like
an eggplant, too.”
“What do you call it?”
we asked.
** ‘California Bean’ is
what we always called it. I
don’t know if that’s the
right name or not,”” Mr.
Scholl replied.
Jerry” Hiestand poses with trophies, a sign, and
September 13,
1978
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some implements of snake hunting: 2 sets of tongs, and
a snake hook. One set of tongs is custom-made.
Rattlesnakes are
his hobby
Fitzgerald Hiestand has
twice been bitten by snakes
since 1954, when he first
became a snake hunter.
That didn’t stop him
though. He simply put a
patch for each bite on his
snake-hunting jacket.
“It all began 24 years
ago near Wellsboro,”” he
says. ‘‘The reptiles were
frightening off the tour-
ists.”” The state then
offered $1 for each rattle-
snake rattle, so Fitzgerald
and his cousin, the late
Drew Hiestand, went out
snake hunting.
Today the rattlers are no
longer killed. In fact, it is
now required that the
hunters let their catches
go. The hunters go out and
find the snakes, then bring
them back to ‘‘the pit,”
where they are measured
and their rattles counted.
“‘Jerry’’ has a number of
honorary awards and
badges he has earned over
the years, including the
two for bites. He doesn’t
hunt anymore, since he had
a laryngectomy operation,
but he is still active around
the pits. Jerry recently
participated in the annual
snake hunt at Indian Steps.
About 4000 people came to
that one. Jerry goes to
about S or 6 hunts each
summer.
Snake hunting gear is
often custom-made, be-
cause many types aren’t
available commercially.
Jerry has a ‘‘snake hook,’’
which is made from an old
golf club, and two sets of
snake tongs. Some people
use a ‘‘loop stick.”” The
captured snakes are usually
kept in a burlap bag.
Many people have mis-
conceptions about snakes,
he finds. For instance, a
rattlesnake does not always
rattle before striking.
(There are no rattlers in
this area; there are about
30 types of copperhead.)
Snakes shed their skins
about 4 times each year.
Jerry’s constant compan-
ion in the snake hunts is
Phares Hertzog, Professor
Emeritus of Elizabethtown
College and an authority on
reptiles and insects. Both
men have presented lec-
tures and have exhibited an
extensive collection of
Pennsylvania snakes pre-
served in formaldehyde.
Jerry is a charter mem-
ber of the Keystone Club,
the Sennamahoning Sports-
men’s Club, and other
organizations.
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