Vol. 78, No. 50, December 13, 1978 SUSQUEHANNA TIMES MARIETTA ANI Mount Joy Council rejects tax hike Close vote beats two-mill increase Mount Joy Borough Council last Monday voted down a two-mill tax jump by a close vote of S to 4, and then went on the pass the same budget without a tax increase. The change was accomplished by rear- ranging the amounts in the various funds, and delaying part of the payment on the recently purchased Shatto property next door to the borough building. The two mills would have brought another $12,000 into the town’s coffers. The total budget amounts to $459,500. The extra millage was proposed by Virginia Horst of the finance committee. The earlier proposed bud- gets had called for five mills, but the various committees had pared that down to two. Mrs. Horst said that her committee had considered raising the garbage collec- tion rate instead of the millage. But, she said, they had decided against this because many businesses hire private trash removal companies to do the work. She felt the property tax a fairer way to get the money. School Board reorganizes The School Board re- organized at its last meet- ing. Dale Arnold will remain as president. Jere Duke will replace Mr. Meckley, who resigned last summer, as vice president. Mr. Kugle and Mr. Arnold will be the Vo-Tech committee member and alternate, respectively. The wage tax committee repre- sentative is Mrs. Eicherly, and Mr. Duke is the alternate. Dr. Eshleman and Mr. Weidman will serve on the PSBA Legislative Commit- tee. Mr. Arnold said that he has ‘‘no major changes’ in mind for the committees appointments he will make. He invited suggestions from the other board members. Two letters of thanks were read. One was from Jack W.W. Loose, the other from Mrs. Sharon Brown. Dr. Hartzler of the public realtions committee report- ed that several board members had met with the Maytown P.T.O., and that he felt the talk had been fruitful. Dr. Fellenbaum congrat- ulated the Donegal sports teams again. President Dale Arnold said that the board is still considering the idea of allowing a girls’ softball team to be set up at Donegal High School. Mr. Kugle said that the Mount Joy Vo-Tech will hold an open house in [continued on page 8] Community Xmas party in Maytown The Mount Joy Jaycees will hold a Christmas party for children, fourth grade and under, in the MYO building in Maytown on Saturday, December 16th, at 10:00 AM. There will be cartoons and a visit from Santa, plus refreshments. All East Donegal area and younger are invited to attend. invited to attend. Council was divided be- tween those who felt that this amount would not be a hardship, and would have to spent later if not now, and the others who felt it was unnecessary. In the debate that follow- ed the proposal, discussion centered about the Shatto property and the major equipment fund (money that is saved up for large purchases that arise from time to time). Voting for the extra taxes were Ricedorf, Stehman, Horst, and Wolgemuth. The others—Chapin, Groff, Fitzkee, Smith, and Zeller —voted against. After Ammon Smith moved to eliminate the increase, the votes were reversed, except for Rice- dorf and Wolgemuth, who voted Yes on both. In other business: Council granted tax ex- oneration to an 87-year-old woman who makes less than the maximum income , of $3200. 8 people have been inter- viewed for a job as a police officer. A replacement for re- signing borough manager Joe Bateman will not be picked until March. These appointments were made to the various com- mittees: Fred Heagy was re- appointed to the Borough Planning Commission for a 4-year term; Albert Kleiner was re- appointed to the Zoning Hearing Board for a term of 3 years; Robert Behling was named to the same board to fill an enexpired term running til 1981; Lloyd Cooke was appoint- ed to the Mount Joy Borough Authority for $ years; David Dumeyer will serve for 5 years on the Board of Health; and Zelda Heisey will fill an unexpired term on the Board of Health which ends in 1980. lee ox 30 R.V- PA. MOUNT © oY. — E [3 J FIFTEEN CENTS Herb Marzolf, CAP solar designer/builder, in heater Why Harry turned off his furnace this morning valves, or Harry and Bertha Riley, of 427 East Market Street, Marietta, have a new addition to the back of their house—a solar heater. Community Action Pro- gram workers have built a two-story, slanting wall of plastic over the entire back of the Riley's home, anc even though it isn’t qu complete, they find that they can turn their heat off in the morning when temperatures hover in the 30’s. They expect to burn about half their usual amount of fossil fuel. The Riley’s solar heater is basically a wall of fibre- glass-reinforced plastic sheets mounted on wooden frames. Two sheets are used in each window-like panel, 1'2 inches apart, for better insulation. The solar wall works on the greenhouse principal. Sunlight comes through the plastic wall and its heat is trapped. The warmed air in the enclosure circulates by convection throughout the house. Soon to be added by CAP carpenters (Herb Marzolf of Landisville and Jim Shearer of Mount Joy) is a hot water heater that will use sunlight to preheat the Riley's water heater feed water to about 115 degrees Fahrenheit, thus saving much more energy. The water heater, to be mounted on the old porch, wil: .unsist of simply an 80 gallon tank painted black and backed up by a shiny, reflective surface. Sunlight will bounce off the backup plate and onto the tank, which will absorb the light and heat up the water. Both the air and water heaters are of the ‘passive’ type, having no pumps, other expensive parts. The ma- terials for both will cost the government between $1300 and $1500. The project is being done as an experi- ment. ‘People have a pessimis- tic attitude toward solar energy,’’ says builder Herb Marzolf, who was working on the heater when the Times dropped by last Monday. ‘‘They think it’s very expensive and ineffec- tive,” he added. ‘‘They think its a gimmick.”” De- spite the public's attitude, however, and the fact that it was cold enough outside to freeze water, the plastic enclosure was uncomfort- ably warm; and it was heating the rest of the structure as well as itself. Solar heat works parti- cularly well in our climate, because the days that are [continued on back page]
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