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May 9, 1979
Obituaries
MRS. CLYDE MYLES
Mrs. Miriam Myles, 60,
of 139 N. Market Ave.
Mount Joy, died at Lancas-
ter General Hospital after an
illness of two days. '
She was the widow of
Clyde Myles, who died in
1961. Born in Lancaster she
was a daughter of Esther I.
Aukamp Kling, Millsboro,
Del., and the late George
W. King.
Besides her mother, she
is survived by two sisters:
Janet, wife of William
Zahm, Millsboro; Lucretia
Benedict, Lancaster; and
one brother, George W.
Kling Jr., Lancaster.
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ELIZABETH MILEY
Elizabeth B. Miley, 9S, of
Mount Pleasant Road, Mar-
ietta, died at Heatherbank
Convalescent Center, Co-
lumbia.
Born in Lancaster, she
was a daughter of the late
Edwin Musser and Marga-
ret V. Elmeck Miley.
She lived in Marietta in
the Musselman’s Mansion
on Musselman’s Hill from
1886 until her death.
She was the only postmis-
tress of Marietta from 1942
until 1955, when she retired.
Prior to that, she was
assistant postmistress in
Maytown for 2 years, and
also worked for the Penn-
sylvania Public Utility Com-
mission.
Miss Miley was also
known for her painting of
scenes around her home and
for her unusual collection of
more than S500 miniature
china, pottery and wooden
dogs.
“It's funny,” she told an
interviewer when she was
86, ‘‘everytime 1 have a
birthday I wonder, how did 1
get to this? 1 feel lucky to
have good health and to
have such good friends and
neighbors, and most impor-
tantly, I live the life I want to
live. It Suits me fine.”
She was a lifelong
member of St. John’s
Episcopal Church, Marietta.
She was a charter member
of the Marietta Senior
League, the Columbia Hos-
pital Auxiliary, the Auxiliary
of St. Anne’s Home in
Columbia, the Lancaster
County Historical Society,
the National Association of
Retired Civil Employees.
Surviving are nieces and
nephews.
MRS. CURTIS REISCH
Mrs. Edna P. Reisch, 73,
of 311 E. Main St., Mount
Joy, died at her home after a
lengthy illness.
She was born in Mount
Joy, the daughter of the late
James Darwin and Florence
Brandt Pennell. She was the
widow of Curtis L. Reisch,
who died in March 1974.
She was a life-long resi-
dent of Mount Joy and a
former employee of the
Gerberich-Payne Shoe Co.
She was a member of St.
Mark’s United Methodist
Church, Mount Joy.
Surviving are: a son,
James H. Reisch, Fort
Worth, Tex.; three brothers
and two sisters: James N.
Pennell, Bruce L. Pennell,
Charles S. Pennell, Hazel P.
Clement, and Florence Pen-
nell, all of Mount Joy, and
three grandsons.
...radiation (cont.)
collected all the radiation
that their prey had eaten.
The actual tests were
done at Oak Ridge, which
Dr. McCormick told us is
“just down the road’ from
the university. His samples
were placed in a hollow
crystal of sodium iodide,
which (if we understood him
correctly) gives off flashes of
light when radioactive rays
hit it. The sensitivity of this
method is good, he told us:
it can detect levels of
radiation 100 times lower
than those the government
considers ‘‘significant.”’
Dr. McCormick's study
was undertaken indepen-
dently; it was not funded by
any power company Or
federal government agency.
*“Our detection methods
are very good,”” Dr. Mc-
Cormick said.
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Dr. McCormick has done
many radiation studies in
the past all over the
continent.
Dr. McCormick has in the
past applied to the federal
government for money to
conduct studies of low-level
radiation’s effects on the
environment, but has been
turned down consistently.
Since TMI, he again applied
and been turned down.
“Twenty years from now,
they'll need to know—and
wish they had more informa-
tion on this,’ he said.
Dr. McCormick was
pleased by the ‘‘excellent
cooperation’’ he got from
local residents, the Pennsyl-
vania Radiological Health
people, and Met Ed. No one
refused to let him take
samples on private property
and he obtained valuable
information about releases,
which helped him pick the
most likely spots to find
radiation in the food chain.
One farmer who let Dr.
McCormick work on his land
had an interesting story to
tell. Even before the man
had heard about the acci-
dent on the radio, he knew
something had happened,
because all of his smoke
detectors went off. Dr.
McCormick explained to us
that the ionization-type
smoke detectors will pick up
radiation as well as smoke,
and noted ‘‘someone could
make a bundle of money by
painting them red’’ and
marketing them as radiation
detectors.
MRS. ELAM Y. HORST
Mrs. Maude E. Horst, 82,
Marietta RD1, died at
Lancaster General Hospital
after a lengthy illness. :
The wife of Elam Y.'
Horst, she was born in
Columbia, the daughter of
the late Zeigler C. and Nora
Eshelman Portner.
She was a member of
United Zion Church, Eliza-
bethtown.
In addition to her hus-
band, she is survived by
three sons: Lloyd K.,
Oxford; Benjamin C., India-
napolis; James E., East
Petersburg; eight grand-
children, five great-grand-
children, and a sister,
Olivia, wife of Walter
Linard, Elizabethtown, R1.
MINNIE R. DEMMY
Minnie R. Demmy, 88,
Bainbridge, died in her
home following a lengthy
illness.
A daughter of the late
Christian C. and Mary K.
Ruthrauff Demmy, she was
born in Stackstown.
She was a resident of the
Bainbridge area all of her
life, and was a member of
Reich’s Evangelical Con-
gregational Church, as well
as both the Missionary
Society and Sunshine Bible
School Class of the church.
She is survived by one
brother, Maurice Demmy,
Lititz.
BUY MOM
FOR MOTHER'S DAY
SUSQUEHANNA TIMES—Page 7
Maifest
Guten Morgen and
Willkommen! The sights,
smells, and sounds of West
Germany were shared by
the third grade students in
Room 11 at Maytown
Elementary School in Done-
gal School District with their
peers, parents, building
personnel, and school ad-
ministration at a Maifest (a
German May Day Celebra-
tion) on Friday in the
Maytown gymnasium. The
occasion was the end of a
five-week study of West
Germany during which time
social studies was combined
with music, art, and lan-
guage arts to bring together
the colorful fabric of the
German culture.
Decorated in black, red,
and gold, colors of the West
German flag, the gym
“‘oompahed” with polkas
and echoed with waltzes.
The buffet tables, loaded
with German foods, were
covered with red checkered
cloths and the tables
reserved for visitors and
faculty were laid with
flowered cloths and decora-
ted with ivy and red and
yellow roses and daisies.
On a 15-minute per room
schedule, each of the 11
classes, from Kindergarten
through sixth grade, visited
the Maifest, and after
signing in, could visit the
tables of German artifacts
and folk art, join in the
polkas already in progress,
and finally sample the
German cuisine. As all of
this activity was in motion,
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the boys and girls of the host
class were answering ques-
tions, directing traffic, act-
ing as curators of their
displays, teaching the polka
learned in music class to
anyone who wanted to learn,
and serving foods. On
display were hand-carved
music * boxes and clocks,
coins, postcards, stamps,
and two 3’ dolls, dressed in
authentic Bavarian costume.
Among the folk arts and
customs on display were
scherenschnitte (scissors
cutting), the Advent wreath,
and colored Easter eggs,
along with masks designed
in art class much like those
worn at Karneval or Fasch-
ing season in Cologne,
Munich, and Mainz during
the weeks prior to the
beginning of Lent. Another
table, bearing a sign which
read “Touch and enjoy,”
included books, magazines,
film strips, and an almost
completed 1000-piece puzzle
of Lake Tegel. Food tables
which featured world-fam-
ous wursts (sausages, of
which Germany boasts some
1400 kinds), cheeses, pum-
pernickel, birch bier, and a
variety of cookies and cakes,
baked by parents as well as
the sponsoring teacher.
A unique dimension of
this study was a ‘‘hot line”
to West Germany in the
form of a young student
studying at the University of
Cologne who provided the
students with instant feed-
back. To him they sent their
taped questions and mes-
sages, and in response they
received his taped replies
(with background sounds of
Cologne) by return Luftpost
(airmail). In addition to the
tapes, each student received
mail from him in which was
included a German word to
learn along with its English
translation. Small wonder
that the arrival of the mail
and tapes was an exciting
part of any day!
So, for Room 11, this
jaunt to West Germany
allowed each student di-
verse impressions of a
unique co niry. Since each
student created his own
booklet about The Federal
Republic of Germany which
included maps, pamphlets,
and his notes on the land,
education, sports, religions,
customs, foods, and a brief
historical time line of the
divided Germany and Berlin
since World War II, it
allowed him an in-depth
look at a foreign culture. If
he could perceive that
another culture, rather than
being funny or strange, is an
attempt, much like his own,
to survive and give some
meaning and purpose to his
life, he might then be able to
sense the human link
connecting him to other
peoples of his planet. And
perhaps; in seeing others
with some degree of em-
pathy and understanding,
each of us may then be
better able to understand
himself.