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Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin
MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA.
Vol. 79, No. 35, September 5, 1979
Mount Joy officials
visit TMI for 3 hours
Last Tuesday, August 28,
officials of Mount Joy
visited Three Mile Island
from 7 to 10:30 p.m. Mayor
James Gingrich, Council
President Omar Groff,
Borough Manager Bruce
Hamer, Council members
George Fitzkee, Paul Steh-
man, Ammon Smith, Don
Zeller, and Miller Wolge-
muth were in the party.
According to Borough
Bruce Hamer
Manager Hamer, the party
went through the entire
plant. They saw the turbine
rooms and the control
rooms, which were big:
‘‘as long as from here to the
road department,’ accord-
ing to Hamer.
“They answered all our
questions, showed us a lot.”
The Met Ed people
showed the group a film at
the beginning of the tour.
They were shown how the
water in Reactor II could be
decontaminated.
‘“The security was some-
thing else,”” Hamer said.
‘“We all wore identification.
Doors were locked at the
end of every hall. We had to
fill out questionnaires at the
beginning of the tour. We
passed through a metal
detector. We checked in and
checked out at the building.
There were guards at every
point. There were pipes and
valves everywhere.
“Their explanations were
simply stated,’”’ Hamer said.
Omar Groff reviews
career as boro official,
takes look into future
After serving for 16 years
as a member of Mount Joy’s
borough government and
most recently as president
of the borough council,
Omar Groff will become a
private citizen on Jan. 1,
1980.
Even before serving in the
borough government Mr.
Groff was active in civic
affairs, having been one of
the founders of the Florin
Fire Company in 1948.
His first post with the
borough government was in
1963, when he was appoint-
ed to the borough planning
commission. He had the
satisfaction of seeing a
comprehensive plan adopt-
ed, to control future growth
in the borough.
And grow Mount Joy did!
Mr. Groff has always
strived to maintain what he
calls ‘‘the small town
characteristic.” But main-
taining that characteristic
has become increasingly
difficult. Especially in the
last four years, the borough
has grown tremendously, he
says. Rapid growth is going
to cause most of the
problems that future council
members will have to face,
he thinks. With a sad smile,
Omar Groff says, ‘‘They will
have my sympathy when I
read about their problems in
the newspaper.’’
For example, with rapid
growth, the police force will
have to be expanded. Mr.
Groff favored a regional
police force, but that does
not seem to be a probability.
Policing already accounts
for one-quarter of the
borough’s budget, and it
will probably account for an
even larger share in the
future, as the borough
continues to grow.
Other problems coming
with continued growth will
be storm water run-off and
deteriorating houses in
blight areas.
A perennial and continu-
ing problem that is peculiar
to Mount Joy, is the
presence of the deteriorat-
ing railroad bridges.
‘‘Something, eventually has
to be done about them,”
says Mr. Groff.They cost us
[continued on page 2]
Rev. Dale H. Engle
Rev. Dale Engle sees
Cross Roads
on verge
The Rev. Dale H. Engle,
pastor at the Crossroads
Brethren in Christ Church,
Mount Joy, is not to be
confused with the Rev. Dale
W. Engle, associate pas-
tor of the Manor Brethren in
Christ Church. There are
lots of Engles in the
Brethren in Christ Church;
it was founded in the late
1700’s by Jacob Engle along
the Conoy Creek near
Stacktown.
Rev. Engle, raised in
Hershey, has many roots in
the Crossroads Church. His
grandfather, Christian Her-
shey, attended Cross Roads.
“I can claim five generat-
ions of relatives who
attended this church,’” says
Rev. Engle.
Rev. Engle attended Her-
shey High School. Rev.
Robert Kettering of Florin
Church of the Brethren also
attended Hershey High at
the same time, and was one
of the first people to
welcome Rev. Engle to
Mount Joy.
After high school, Rev.
Engle went to Messiah
College. There he majored
in religion and was active in
student government, music,
singing, church camps,
Church
of growth
basketball and soccer.
Although the church was
always an important part of
his life he did not definitely
decide to become a minister
until he was travelling with
a singing chorus from
Messiah that performed at
summer camps for youth.
He was with the chorus at a
summer camp in Canada
and was listening to the
Rev. Roy Sider speaking.
Rev. Sider was then a
bishop in Canada. He is now
an administrator for foreign
missions office in Elizabeth-
town. While listening to
Rev. Sider, Dale Engle
made his commitment to
serve Christ as a minister.
After college he took a
year off from education; he
wasn’t sure which type of
ministry he wanted to enter.
He took a part-time position
as student pastor at the
church in Chambersburg.
‘‘That experience helped me
formulate in my mind
whether being a pastor was
right for me.”’
He then studied for three
years at the Asbury Theolo-
gical Seminary in Kentucky,
and graduated with a
Master of Divinity degree.
FIFTEEN CENTS
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Residents of Parkside
organize to circulate
petitions, collect facts,
get ready
The residents of Parkside,
which adjoins the proposed
new apartments for low
income families, have or-
ganized themselves to
oppose the building of the
Creekside apartments.
Members of the Parkside
Homeowners Association
are busy collecting signa-
tures of people all over
mount Joy who are opposed
to building the apartments.
More than 1000 names have
already been collected.
The organization is also
collecting all relevant facts
to present at the next
meeting of the Mount Joy
Planning Commission, when
Laing Properties may also
appear in behalf of the
project. Douglas Richards,
president of the Parkside
organization, told the Sus-
quehanna Times that ‘‘from
this time - forward, the
association will present
only factual and noninflam-
matory information, show-
ing why the Creekside
project is not only not
for Laing
needed, but is an uncon-
scionable waste of tax-
payers’ money, not just
taxpayers here but all U.S.
taxpayers.
Mr. Richards says that
the case the association will
present will be comprehen-
sive and definitive.
Charges made by some
people favoring Creekside—
that Parkside residents are
guilty of racial prejudice
toward potential residents of
Creekside—are absolutely
groundless, Richards stated
emphatically.
He, himself, is part
Cherokee Indian and has
suffered from prejudice
against Indians. Another
resident of Parkside is part
Seminole Indian. Other
residents are Hispanic and
mixed white and black.
Another family is Egyptian.
Richards says that anyone
trying to prove that Parkside
people are racially preju-
diced has an impossible task
on his hands.
People United for the
Arts to meet Sept. 10
People United for the Arts
will hold its first meeting of
the 1979-80 school year on
Monday, September 10,
1979, at 7:30p.m. in the
library at Donegal High
School. All members and
people who are interested in
promoting the arts at
Donegal High School are
invited to attend. The
Storyhour
The storyhour offered by
the Mount Joy Library will
resume its program on
Tuesday, September 11,
1979.
Doors of the library will
open at 9:30a.m.—although
the actual storyhour telling
time does not begin until
9:45a.m.
officers and directors for
1979-80 are as follows:
President-Betty Hershey;
Vice President-Margaret
Landis; Secretary-Beverly
Johnson; Treasurer-Lois
Witman; Directors: Gail
Hawthorne, LaVon Harnish,
Dorothy Zeller and Warren
Foley.
Sept. 11
All pre-school children in
Mount Joy, between the
ages of three and five years
of age, are invited to
participate in the program.
The library storytellers
are Mrs. Kathy Bower, Mrs.
June Honicker, Mrs. Anita
Brenner and Mrs. Dorothy
Heilig. '