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Vol. 78, No. 46, November 15, 1978
They did it
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SUSQUEHANN
SUSQUEHANNA TIMES & THE MOUNT JOY BUL
MARIETTA AND MOUNT JOY, PA
The game’s over, but coach Deshler still looks worried as his team begins
celebrating the end of a perfect season of victories. The most successful
coach in DHS history finally started relaxing about the time his team hit the
showers. ‘‘I guess we won,” the exhausted Indian skipper finally decided,
‘‘but we sure did it the hard way.”
It was a nerve-wracking game, but it had a happy ending.
Coach Gayne Deshler
looked a bit glassy-eyed
after his team came from
behind to squeeze a narrow
26-22 victory from Elco last
Saturday afternoon.
“l bet you feel shaky
right now,”’ a fan yelled to
Deshler, as the coach
slumped against a school
bus and stared into space.
“Any comments?’’ asked
a reporter.
“I guess we won,’’ was
about all Deshler could say.
He didn’t sound completely
convinced that it had really
happened.
Donegal High School has
been fielding varsity foot-
ball teams for 25 years,
much to the delight of
neighboring schools, who
have traditionally pounded
the Indians into the lower
regions of their section.
After beating Elco last
Saturday, however, the
Donegal Indians, for the
first time in their school’s
history, won sole possesion
of the section 3 champion-
ship of the Lancaster-Leb-
anon football league.
At one point in the
season, after they devastat-
ed previously unbeaten
Lampeter-Strasburg, the
team was ranked number
one among all small high
schools in the state of
Pennsylvania.
The Indians now have a
14 game winning streak,
and have won each of their
11 games this year.
Elco almost spoiled all
that with* some brilliant
passing and a lot of good
luck.
Much of the Raiders’
passing brilliance was
concentrated in the de-
ceptively small frame of
one Tracy Lehman, a young
man whose fingers stick to
pigskin the way nails stick
to giant electro-magnets.
Elco’s good luck included
three Indian fumbles and a
lot of penalties.
Donegal got the game off
to a good start by scoring
on the team’s first two
possesions. Pete Splain led
the typically brutal Indian
running attack with two
touchdowns, and added a
couple of extra points with
his toes. (The awed Elco
announcer began calling
Splain ‘‘this amazing
athlete’’ halfway through
the game.)
Elco soon discovered that
running against the Indians
was like beating one’s head
against a stone wall, but
the Raider passing attack
was another story. With
Lehman catching every-
thing that came near him,
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FIFTEEN CENTS
Bateman resigns
Mount Joy’s borough
manager, Joe Bateman,
announced his resignation
at last Monday’s Borough
Council meeting. He will
be leaving office on Janu-
ary 2nd.
Bateman will be joining
the firm of D.C. Gohn and
Associates, Inc.
Bateman received a num-
ber of compliments from
the council members after
he announced his depar-
ture. Omar Groff said that
he had done a good job,
especially in bringing fed-
eral and state money into
the borough. President
Ricedorf said that, while
Bateman has on occasion
been criticized, that meant
that he had been doing his
job. A borough manager
Christine Brown, of Apt. #2, 239 N. Plum St.,
Mount Joy, points to her grandfather clock, made by
Jacob Gorgus in 1718.
Her home is one of ten
included in the Mount Joy BPW Candlelight Tour to
be held this Sunday.
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will inevitably be criticized,
Ricedorf said, unless he
does nothing.
Councilman Russell
Chapin said that in his
opinion, ‘‘Joe has been
batting 500."
Most resignations are
accepted without comment
by the council.
Bateman has been the
manager for S years.
Bateman's replacement
will be nominated by a
committee consisting of
councilmen Omar Groff and
Ammon Smith.
resolution passed
Bateman covered more
routine matters before say-
ing that he was quitting.
He proposed a resolution to
send to the state govern-
ment a letter asking that
borough managers be ex-
empted from the financial
disclosure law just passed
by the state government.
Wolgemuth appointed
Mr. C. Miller Wolge-
muth, of 40 Old Market,
Mount Joy, was appointed
to fill the unexpired term of
Harold Keller, who resign-
ed last month. He will
represent the West Ward.
Wolgemuth was nomin-
ated by councilpersons
Chapin and Horst. He was
approved unanimously.
“I'll do my best... I'm
glad to serve,” Wolgemuth
said as he took his seat at
the table. (He did not vote
this time, not being sworn
in yet). He will be a
member of the Health and
Safety Committee.
Birchland Avenue again
Mr. Mateer from Birch-
land Avenue spoke up
during the Public Hour,
asking what progress had
been made in fixing the
runoff problem. About 15
minutes of discussion fol-
lowed, with council repeat-
ing its previous statements
that it was going as fast as
it could, and the Birchland
Avenue resident complain-
ing that that wasn't good
enough. The man finally
stalked out disgustedly.
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