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Vol. 79, No. 2, January 10, 1979
Chester Wittell and Ophion
Ophion returns
An ad in last week's
Susquehanna Times asked
for the return of a “‘playful,
affectionate cat...a family
pet...male with gray head &
back and white underbdelly
& paws.’’ The ad was placed
by Dr. Chester Wittell, com-
poser and poet, who lives at
206 West Main Street,
Mount Joy.
Last Friday a letter writ-
ten by Dr. Wittell appeared
in the Lancaster Intelligen-
cer Journal, in which Dr.
Wittell said that the loss of
his cat, which had slept on
a pillow beside him, had
‘‘spoiled my Christmas and
dinner, for every morsel of
food 1 tried to swallow stuck
in my throat, sparking the
wonder what my little friend’
was eating (if anything), or
if it were waiting some-
where, shivering, cold and
hungry without a friend in
the world.”
The story began last fall,
when Mrs. Raffensberger,
who lives in the apartment
above Dr. Wittell at 206
West Main Street, present-
ed the kitten to Dr. Wittell.
According to Wittell, Mrs.
Raffensberger was almost
as upset as he was when the
cat disappeared.
Last Friday evening Don-
ald C. Snyder, III, a student
at Beahm Junior High
School, noted a cat which
followed him while he was
delivering newspapers in
the Westview Estates area
after school. He discovered
that a Tompkins family had
been feeding the cat.
When Don got home after
delivering papers he told his
mother, Mrs. Donald C.
Snyder, Jr., 315 Springfield
Garden Apartments, about
the cat which had followed
him. She told Don about the
ad she had seen in the
Times, and Don went back
to the Tompkins to pick up
the cat. He then took the cat
to Dr. Witell’'s house on
Main Street. He found Dr.
Wittell at his typewriter in
his kitchen and showed the
cat to him. It was Dr.
Wittell’s cat.
Dr. Wittell has been busy
lately adding to his sonnets
and also composing poems
for a collection which he has
entitled, Darkened Door. A
very long poem which he
finished this fall is about
Ophion, a Titan in Greek
mythology who ruled Mount
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UEHANN.,
SUSQUEHANNA TIMES & THE MOUNT JOY BULLETIN
MARIETTA AND MOUNT JOY, PA
RALPH M SNYDER
R.De..2
MOUNT JOY, PA.
BOX 3040
17552 4
Kristen Straub is Miss Teenager state finalist
Kristen Staub, 18, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Donald H. Straub of 116 S.
Market Street, Mount Joy,
has been selected as a
state finalist in the 1979
Pennsylvania National
Teenager Pageant to be
held at Lycoming College
and the Williamsport Area
High School on June 1, 2,
and 3, 1979. This is the
state finals to the Miss
National Teenager Pageant,
which will be held in
Atlanta, Georgia, in
August.
The winner of the state
pageant will receive a $500
cash scholarship, a full
Barbizon modeling course,
and an all-expense-paid
trip to Atlanta for the
national competition.
Contestants will be judg-
ed on scholastic achieve-
ment, leadership, poise,
personality, and appear-
ance. There is no swim suit
or talent competition. Each
contestant will participate
in the National Teenager
Volunteer Service Program
and recite a 100 word
speech on the pageant
theme, ‘‘What’'s Right
About America.”’
Kristen is being sponsor-
ed in this pageant by the
Mount Joy Business and
Professional Women’s Club
and the Walter S. Ebersole
Unit 185 Americane Legion
Auxiliary.
At Donegal High, Miss
Straub has been a member
of the Pep Band, chorus,
Rhythm Singers, and
dramatics club. She has
worked as a stagehand in
the dramatic productions,
and is a member of the
band. She has served as
the copy editor for the
yearbook.
Kristen Straub
Mount Joy Council buys
cruiser, hires two cops
Gary Gallagher
Last Monday the Mount
Joy Borough Council shelv-
ed two zoning amend-
ments, hired two police
officers, and bought a new
police cruiser.
The two zoning amend-
ments were: (1) an amend-
ment to Section 510 of the
Borough Zoning Ordinance,
concerning mobile home
park regulations; and (2) a
request from Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Heilman for the re-
zoning of their property,
located at the corner of
Square Street and Green
Alley, from General Com-
mercial to High Density
Residential.
The Heilman’s request
was the first step in a
development plan. A
spokesman for the would-
be developer outlined for
Council the basic idea:
townhouses for rent.
The developers had al-
ready discussed their
scheme with the County
Planning Commission, who,
the spokesman said, had
recommended the abandon-
ment of a ‘‘dogleg’’ street,
the building of a second
street, and the improve-
ment of a third in the area
of the proposed develop-
ment. The cost would be
borne by the developer.
A couple of citizens
voiced objections to the
tentative plan. One said
that the land might be
wanted some day for
industrial growth in Mount
Joy, and noted that it is
much more difficult to
change an area from
residential “to commercial
than it is to change it in
the opposite direction. The
other person said that he
owns land adjacent to the
proposed development. He
was worried about the
effect on his possible future
sale of his land, and noted
that there is a rail line
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