Page 12—SUSQUEHANNA TIMES
Highlights
of 1979
Do you remember. . . ?
Here are some of the lead
stories from the Susquehann
Times of last year.
January 3. Donegal wins
its basketball tournament.
Bill and Mary Gilbert of
Gilbert Motors in Mavtown,
retire after 20 years in
business.
January 10. Kristen
Straub is Miss Teenager
finalist. Gary Gallagher
appointed policeman. Nine-
teenth century Marietta
artist Arthur Armstrong
wins belated appreciation
from critics.
January 17. East Donegal
supervisors announce that
new municipal building is
paid for.
Januray 31. William E.
Martin was awarded the
Distinguished Service A-
ward by the Mount Joy
Javcees. Dorothy Schock
was chosen as Woman of the
Year.
February 7. The Donegal
girls basketball team moved
into a tie for first place by
defeating Hempfield.
January 14. Mayor James
Gingrich resigned in Mount
Joy, saying that his position
in business was taking too
much of his time from his
duties as mayor.
February 21. The Donegal
wrestling team won its third
straight championship.
March 14. Mayor Ging-
rich agrees to continue as
mayor. D.H.S. cleans up, as
usual in annual science fair.
April 4. TM.L
April 25. Bruce Hamer,
new Borough Manager of
Mount Joy.
May 9. Tennessee ecolo-
gist finds no biological
contamination in area from
T.M.IL
May 16. Mount Joy
Inter-Church Council issues
critical statement on T.M.I.
June 13. John Groff killed
in motorcycle accident.
June 27. Gas shortage
hits area. Deb Torres, Miss
Donegal.
August 15. Mount Joy
residents organize to resist
building of Parkside, apart-
ment complex for low-in-
come families.
Girls dealt suprising de-
August 22. Vigorous bat-
le against Creekside contin-
ues. Anti-nuclear group
formed in Marietta.
August 29. Rev. Roger
Colvin of St. Mark's United
Methodist Church in-Mount
Joy preaches sermon favor-
able to Creekside. Charles
Patterson of Lancaster Re-
delopment Authority in
Lancaster, says Mount Joy
might lose federal aid. if it
opposes Creekside apart-
ments for low income
families.
September 5. The resi-
dents of Parkside, adjoining
proposed Creekside, organ-
ize to oppose building of
Creekside.
September 12. Creekside
project abandoned, because
owners won't sell.
September 19. Marietta
Borough Council votes for
shutdown of TMI reactors.
October 10. Friendship
Fire Company in Mount Joy
breaks ground for its new
fire hall. Mariettans get
concerned about teen viol-
ence.
October 17. Mariettans
become more excited by
teen gang violence.
October 24. Marietta
Council appoints committee
to cope with teen violence.
November 14. Larry Gill-
ham, Paul Sload, Oliver
Overlander, and Martha
Breckline win election to
Marietta Borough Council.
William Breckline was elect-
ed constable. Harold Drager
was elected supervisor in
East Donegal. James Dro-
han was elected Auditor and
George Shirk Constable in
East Donegal. Robert Ston-
er, Charles Ricedorf, C.
Miller Wolgemuth, and
John Harnish were elected
to Council in Mount Joy.
Both Frank Auments won as
constable in their respective
districts in Mount Joy.
Miles Robinson was elected
constable in Florin. In
Mount Joy Tonwship James
Mummau and Herbert Hoo-
ver were elected supervis-
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feat by York Suburban
After beating Lebanon
(with Sam Bowie's kid
sister) decisively on Wed-
nesday, Donegal girls’ bas-
ketball team went down to a
surprising defeat by York
Suburban in the Ephrata
Lions Tournament last
week.
The Indians were ahead,
43 to 41 going into the final
quarter, which the York
Suburbanites took by an
amazing 24 to 8.
The loss to York Suburban
was Donegal’s first of this
season.
This Friday they meet
Hempfield, their arch-foe of
last year, at Hempfield.
Next Tuesday they play
Penn Manor at home.
The Lancaster-Lebanon League’s best scorer, Mitch
Johnson,
leaves two Manheim Central Barons
completely faked-out and flat-footed as he adds 2
Donegal boys’ basketball
team lost in the final game
of the tournament it hosted
to Manheim Central, 63 to
S3.
Manheim led through
most of the game, but was
outscored in the (final
quarter, 21 to 16 by the
Indians.
The Indians’ ace, Mitch
Johnson, scored 14 of his 26
points in the last quarter.
During the second quarter
the Manheim team went
into a stall; the only points
scored in the second quarter
were Donegal, 4, and
Manheim, 2.
the Indians
Manheim
the tourna-
Previously,
had defeated
Township in
ment, 59 to S1.
This week Donegal plays
Lebanon Catholic on Friday
in Lebanon, and next
Tuesday they play Annville-
Cleona there.
Mitch Johnson, Donegal’s
6-S senior, has an average of
32 points per game in the
first three league games he
has played thus far this
year. He scored 41 points
against Elizbethtown.
His performance so far
is the best in the entire
Lancaster-Lebanon league.
January 2, 1980
points to his soaring total. The Baron who seems to be
looking for the ball on the floor is Terry Parks, who
boasts the league’s second-highest point total.
Dribblers win first game but cannot repeat
performance in second game of Tournament
Terry Parks of Manheim
Central is second highest
scorer in the league with a
24-point average.
Last year Johnson ranked
fourth in the league and
Parks second, behind Sam
Bowie.
Four grapplers win
championship in
Four of Donegal’s grap-
plers went all the way in
Donegal’'s own wrestling
tournament last week.
Duane Musser won the
‘Donegal Tournament
championship at 98 pounds,
winning a decision over Tim
Roschel of Lancaster Catho-
lic.
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