Jaycees
The Installation and
Awards Banquet of the
Mount Joy Jaycees and
Joycee-ettes will be held
this Saturday, April 7, at
the Holiday East Inn.
The social hour will be
from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
power lines lead from the reactor containment building.
Jaycees
The Marietta Jaycees are
sponsoring an Easter Flow-
er Sale at J-C headquarters
at Market Street and
Waterford Avenue on
12, 13, and 14 from 9
until 9 p.m. William !
is chairman of the bene
SUSQUEHANNA TIMES & THE MOUNT JOY BULLETIN
MARIETTA AND MOUNT JOY, PA
While many people left
this area over the weekend,
local police, civil defense,
ambulance and fire person-
nel stayed and prepared for
a possible evacuation.
Although the situation at
Three Mile Island is improv-
ing as we go to press,
evacuation may be started if
the reactor situation should
deteriorate.
Some stay, some go
Estimates were that as
many as a third of the
residents left town.
Several people said that
half of Maytown was gone.
Police in Mount Joy
estimated that a tenth of
the residents had departed.
If there had been an
evacuation of all residents,
the only ones to remain
would have been the
police, and they were ready
to shoot any looters they
might have discovered.
The reactions of local
people to the nuclear crisis
this week varied much.
Some were terrified and
quickly fled the area.
Others were nonchalant
or at least fatalistic.
All must have been
anxious. A medical expert
in radiation at the Univers-
ity of Pennsylvania said
that so far the crisis had
taken a far greater
psychological rather than a
radiological toll.
Visiting journalist interviewed by Zimes
The clouds of steam
above Three-Mile-Island
had evaporated from our
horizon last week, as
technicians worked frantic-
ally to spare us from
calamity.
When the Susquehanna
Times heard that President
Jimmy Carter was visiting
the possible site of disaster
we decided it was our
journalistic duty to try to
cover the president’s visit
to our territory.
We didn’t see Jimmy,
but we did see a host of
fellow reporters from all
over the world. We tried to
introduce ourselves to
representatives of the New
York and London Timeses,
but without too much
success.
One obliging journalist,
and a very interesting one,
did, however, talk to
us—one Imai Yoshinori of
the Japan Broadcasting
Company.
Mr. Yoshinori informed
us that the Japan Broadcast-
ing Company was an
organization very similar to
the British Broadcasting
Company.
The Japanese, he told
us, because of their
intimate acquaintance with
nuclear ‘horrors during
World War II were very,
very interested in what was
happening at Three-Mile-
Island.
Mr. Yoshinori told us
that the plant at Three-
Mile was constructed by
Babcock and Wilcox Co. (a °
firm whose stock fell last
week). Most of the nuclear
plants under construction
in Japan are being built by
Westinghouse. Mr. Yoshi-
nori sincerely hopes that
Westinghouse nuclear
plants are superior to those
of Babcock and Wilcox.
Mr. Yoshinori said that
the Japanese have a name
for their *‘special concern’’
about nuclear reactions; it
is called ‘‘nuclearallergy.”
Imai Yoshinori
RALPH M SNYDER
R.D., 2 [3
MOUNT
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JOY, PA.
Community ready for possible evacuation
2 Civil Defense, police, ambulance and firemen work around the clock
accounting for all people and laying plans; Evacuation signal is
In Mount Joy, mayor
Gingrich met with the fire
companies and civil defense
people Sunday night and
hammered out plans. The
evacuation signal would be:
five continuous minutes of
siren sound. Evacuation
would take 12 hours,
according to plans.
‘“The main thing would be
to stay cool,”” said acting
borough manager Al
Kleiner. ‘‘There won't be
any need to rush in case of
evacuation.’’
Evacuation would not be
mandatory. However, a
curfew—in effect from 7:00
PM to 6:00 AM—would go
into effect if evacuation
were instituted, so those
who would stay should be
ready for this. The curfew
would be needed due to the
threat of looting.
About S0 volunteers
would canvass the town,
knocking on each door.
Every house would be
covered.
Those who have cars
should, in the event of
evacuation, pack and drive
out within 12 hours. Those
who have no place to go
should go to the Park City
parking lot. If they would
find that filled, they should
drive onward along Rte. 30
to the Exton Square parking
lot.
Those without transporta-
tion will be given rides to
prearranged centers. Lim-
ousines and busses are
ready. Ambulances are also
prepared to transfer
invalids. (The ambulances
have already been active in
transporting invalids out of
the area).
Civil Defense director
Christ Charles will take
charge of the situation in the
event of evacuation.
Mr. Kleiner said that, if
the evacuation took place, it
would be done in stg ec
first the five-mile radius
circle would be emptied,
then the ten-mile circle.
Mount Joy is just outside
the ten-mile radius.
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evacuation notice station for
this area.
fiveminute siren sound; Evacuation not a cause for alarm
Kleiner said the Mount"
Joy police have not had any
serious difficulties because
of hysteria or the empty
houses of those who have
left.
In Marietta, the evacua-
tion signal will also be a 5S
minute continuous siren.
Civil Defense workers have
been monitoring the air, and
making lists of people who
would have to be moved by
ambulance or bus.
Mariettians without a
destination should also head
for Park City.
The possible evacuation is
‘‘well-planned,”’ according
to chief Millar. He stressed
that the plans are ‘‘pre-
cautionary,”’ and said he
has ‘‘no foreseeable prob-
lems’’ in sight.
In East Donegal Township
and Maytown, firemen,
working with the supervis-
ors and police, have set up
plans to cover each and
every house in the township.
Fire trucks and ambulances
would split up into four
teams and cover the town-
ship according to the pattern
worked out over the week-
end. (An exhausted spokes-
man at the Maytown Fire
Hall said that he and others
had been awake and
working for the past 2S
hours getting the plan
ready to implement).
Invalids have already
been separately arranged
for. Industries and churches
have been contacted to get
lists of all people in the
township who would be hard
to locate or transport.
All local ambulance crews
are very well coordinated
and are ready for evacua-
tion, the spokesman said.
Crews have volunteered to
stay behind until all those
whe want to get out are
safelv away.
Remember — DON’T
PANIC. An evacuation no-
tice will not mean that you
are in any immediate
danger. :