Pinochle party
The Maytown Civic As-
sociation will hold their
first 1979 pinochle party on
Friday, January Sth, at
8:00 PM at the East
Donegal Township Munici-
pal Buildine
SUSQUEHANNA 11!
SUSQUEHANNA TIMES & THE MOUNT JOY BULLETIN
"MARIETTA AND MOUNT JOY, PA
Marietta floodplain
RALPH M SNYDER
R.D. 2 BOX 3040
MOUNT JOY... PA. 17552
1ES
FIFTEEN CENTS
Vol. 79, No. 1, January 3, 1979
Donegal’s Mitch Johnson [in dark jersey] drives toward the basket in the game
against Township.
Donegal wins
Indians still undefeated after tournament
Donegal won its own
basketball tournament for
the first time in 3 years last
week. As usual, the compe-
tition was impressive; and
the Indians had to win both
their games (against East-
ern and then Manheim
Township) by one basket.
Craig Zink had magic
fingers during Wednesday
night's game against Town-
ship, and he led the team
with 26 points. Mitch
Johnson was also in top
form, scoring 17 points and
doing a fine job under the
boards and on assists. Tim
Roaten, usually a pillar of
the offense, appeared to be
having an off night gen-
erally, and heavy defensive
pressure held him to 8
points overall; but he pro-
duced the game-winning
lay-up with 47 seconds left
to play. Keith Persun
added another 4 points for
the Indians, and Brian Ney,
although he didn’t score,
played effectively both on
defense and in his offens-
ive slot as playmaking
guard.
The Indians have. been
undefeated since the sec-
tion season opened. Ann-
ville-Cleona is also unde-
feated as we go to press,
and Garden Spot, which
lost . the league opener to
the Indians, is still breath-
ing down Donegal’s neck.
However, if the Indians
retain their apparent ability
to pull hotly contested
games out of the fire, they
should pull down the
section crown this year.
Situation still confused
Little has developed in
the last week concerning
the new floodplain law.
The Marietta Restoration
Associates have not sched-
uled a town meeting on the
matter, partly because
representative Bob Walker
is unable to attend for a
while (he has been in New
Mexico), and because ways
of fighting the insurance
law are still being investi-
gated.
Two courses of action
seem to be open at the
moment. One is to chal-
lenge the hydrologic study
done by the government
and get the 100-year flood-
line pushed back: this is
probably impossible, and
certainly impractical. The
other method is to some-
how or other have all of
Marietta’s floodplain de-
clared a state or federal
historic area.
Individual
historic
owners of
properties can
attempt to have their
houses declared historic.
This requires a lot of work
in the form of research and
documentation.
Ken Ross, president of
the Restorationists, said in
regard to this that perhaps
the borough could assist
individual homeowners or
the floodplain as a whole
with the surveys and
research, possibly with
federal dollars.
(Ross also told the Times
that an Insurance Adminis-
tration official had told him
that ‘‘intrusions’’ in the
Historic District are not
immune from the flood law.
This contradicts what other
officials, with the National
Register, have said.)
Last week we spoke to
Charles Herrington, Chief
of Registration at the
National Register in Wash:
ington. Mr. Herrington
said, after being informed
of the situation, that
perhaps the entire town
could be declared an
Historic District. Mr. Her-
rington has often expressed
his interest in Marietta. He
is a frequent visitor here.
The Susquehanna Times
hopes to have more
information next week.
A red-hot Craig Zink lets fly for two points.