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January 10, 1979
...return of Ophion (cont.)
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If you have been thinking : (110)
about installing a wood Will BABYSIT preschool
heater now is the time to children most hours. Mount
do it while the supply lasts. Joy. Call 653-2723 anytime.
‘We have many models and’
prices to choose from.
426-3286. Hiestand Distri-
butors, R.D. #1 Marietta.
ESTATE NOTICE
Estate of David H. Eby,
late of Mount Joy Borough,
Lancaster County, PA:
Letters testamentary on
Olympus before the king of
the gods, Zeus. Asked what
the name of his cat was on
into the air any way you
please—but it will always
eyes, they can see as well in
the dark as in light...They
have a special tongue which land on its feet.
Monday, Dr. Wittell at first is as rough as a file for “Don’t despise the alley
. - said the cat did not have a killing their prey...They cat.”
said estate having been | name but then suddenly have specialized teeth... Dr. Wittell went on to
granted to the undersigned | o4iq “‘Come to think of it, I Whiskers for getting praise a creature universalls
all persons indebted hereto | (hink 1'[] call the cat ‘Ophi- through narrow openings... despised by human beings:
are requested to make ’ as )
£ 8 on. the cockroach, which, he
immediate payment and all said, *‘sits triumphant at the
hase pang Jains of apex of Siastion. hens
: J 1 as mastered thc most
will present them without difficult of arts—how to let
(110) lament to the men build houses for him.”
Ruth N. Eby, 630 Don-
egal Springs Road, Mount
Joy, PA 17552 and Union
National Mount Joy Bank,
Mount Joy, PA 17552.
Custodian, full-time, ex-
cellent fringe benefits &
working conditions. Apply
in person, 8:00 to 12:00
noon, 1:00 to 4:00 PM,
Monday through Friday,
Donegal Mutual Insurance
Company, Rte. 441 by-pass
Marietta, PA 17547.
Wholesale. Columbia To-
bacco Company, Inc., 684-
2710— Party Supplies,
Cigarettes, Tobacco,
Candy, Paper Goods. 509
South 16th Street, Colum-
bia. Pa.
LOANS & GRANTS
Interest free Loans & Grants
for home improvements are
available to eligible Lan-
A long tail that acts as a
balance pole in making a
Dr. Wittell went on to |eap.. Specially padded
‘praise cats as a species.
“‘Biologists,’’ he said, ‘‘say
that cats are so fully devel-
oped from an evolutionary
point of view that they can
be developed no further.
claws, so that you can’t hear
it walking two feet away.
Those pads conceal deadly
weapons...And over and
above all, a set of reflexes
unsurpassed by any living
thing. You can throw a cat
During Dr. Wittell’s com-
mendatory remarks about
his own species and that of
cockroaches, Ophion slept
soundly.
LET FX BACTERIA help
clean your Septic Tank the
Easy Way—$6.98. Tree
1 limits. Lines. Sinks opened. Morgan, Hallgren
¢ For more information Hostetter Hardware & Heinly, Attorneys
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f 2 REDEVELOPMENT Recently engaged? Had a , .. .. oy h if
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S ” Phone 394-0793 famous basket in the wu January 17, 1979, at 8:00
y ¥ at your cooisiep, pease py , the Borough Of
§ call—Pat Burton, 653-1963 Building, 21 Each Main
2 2 Old furniture, glassware, or Cherie Dillow, 653-1609 y
J: f Street, Mount Joy. The
« @ guns, coins, split rail fence, [Mount Joy area]; or Hazel purpose of this meeting will
k pool tables, and old mis- Baker, 426-3643 [Marietta be to discoss th By
i cellaneous wanted to buy. area). sewerbon ri upcoming
3 . Call : :
3 a good prices WELCOME WAGON : All interested parties are
3 * I am interested in obtain- jpvited to attend.
4 ing articles of old Mount Paris H. Sweigart
1 NOTICE Joy, photos, manufactured Secretary
a items, advertising cards,
& for my Mount Joy museum.
FREE to good home: Ger- Joe Shaeffer, phone
man shepherd/collie pups. 653-4604. REAR
Call 426-2642. (13)
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caster County residents
living outside Lancaster City
Roots Removed from Sewer
Carl R. Hallgren for
With a vertical slit in their
Alligator
Floating quietly at the
river’s edge, eyes and nostrils
barely visible ‘above water,
the reptile zeroes in on the
unsuspecting muskrat. Sud-
denly, what appeared to be a
harmless log comes to life and
the muskrat is dragged into
deep water by smashing jaws
and thrashing tail. .
Was that an alligator or
crocodile?
Both reptiles are ‘““croco-
dilians” and they do look
very much alike, according to
the current (November) issue
of Ranger Rick’s Nature Mag-
azine, the children’s monthly
published by the National
Wildlife Federation. But there
are ways to tell crocs from
gators.
An alligator’s snout is wide
and rounded, while a croco-
dile’s is longer, thinner, and
more pointed. Those sharp
teeth also are a clue — with
its mouth closed, a crocodile
has a big tooth protruding on
each side, fitting into grooves
or crocodile?
on the outside of his upper
jaw. But in alligators, those
two lower teeth slip into a
pocket inside his upper jaw,
hidden from view.
Crocodilians live in very
warm, wet parts of North and
South America, Africa, Asia
and Australia, in swamps,
marshes, lakes, rivers, or bays.
Although they can stand on
all fours and run rapidly for
short distances on land, crocs
and gators are much more at
home in the water, says Rang-
er Rick.
The unfortunate muskrat
is a typical meal for adult
gators and crocs. Adults will
eat anything they can catch
and hold onto — fish, wading
birds, turtles, snakes, ducks,
raccoons, and. other mam-
mals. Both species also swal-
low rocks as ‘“‘ballast’ to help
them maintain their balance
in the water.
Even animals the size of
deer or pigs may be pulled
down into the water and
drowned.
What about people? Are
crocs and gators ‘‘man-eat-
ers”? Seldom, if ever, says
Ranger Rick. “Unless cor-
nered and not allowed to
escape, they would much
rather hide or run from
humans.” However, there are
two kinds of crocodiles that
have attacked people many
times — the Nile crocodile of
Africa and the saltwater
crocodile of southern Asia.
Today’s crocs and gators
grow to be from four feet to
25 feet long. Fossils have
been found which reveal that
"in ‘prehistoric . times some
crocodiles were as much as
fifty feet long.
Baby crocs and gators have
many enemies — raccoons,
otters, wading birds, and
other larger animals. But
adult crocodilians have no
enemies other than man.
Great numbers of baby alli-
gators have been captured
and sold as pets, although this
is now illegal. And of, course,
millions of larger gators have
been killed for their leathery
skins, which are used to make
shoes, handbags, luggage, and
belts.
As a result, the American
alligator was once nearly
wiped out and was put on the
U.S. endangered species list.
They’ve made a great come- | |
back in many areas, and in |
1977 about 75 percent of |
U.S. alligators were reclassi-
fied from “endangered” to
threatened.” Today the U.S.
alligator population is esti-
mated to total about
800,000. In contrast, the
American crocodile is still in
very grave danger. They. exist
in the U.S. only in Florida
where there are about a
dozen breeding females.
With care, these mighty
reptiles’ may escape the fate
of the dinosaurs with whom
taey once shared the earth.
Donald C. Snyder, Il