Page 2—SUSQUEHANNA TIMES 1 0 2 IS DU a oa. Don’t be late & cry the blues!!! iller’s Tire & Service Maytown, PA Phone 426-3430 Shelly’ s Furniture oe IT’S COLD OUTSIDE but there’s RED HOT VALUES INSIDE January is trade-in month make a deal with one of our wheeler-dealers SHOP SHELLY’S FURNITURE Phone 684-3780 237 Locust St., Columbia free delivery La MANHEIM PIKE, EAST PETERSBURG OPPOSITE ERB'S MARKET-569-5353 Where Our Customers Send Their Friends EMERGENCY MEDICAL CALLS Saturday Afternoon and Sunday Dr. David E. Schlosser (Mount Joy Area Only) EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES Available Day & Night COLUMBIA HOSPITAL 7th & Poplar (Emergency Entrance) Susquehanna Times | [USPS 055-530] Box 75-A, R.D.#1, Marietta, PA 17547 Published weekly on Wednesdays [52 issues per year] Telephone: [717] 426-2212 or 653-8383 Publisher—Nancy H. Bromer Editor—Diane L. Krantz Advertising Manager—Kay Kauffman Marietta Editor—Hazel Baker Mount Joy Editor—Cherie Dillow Vol. 80, No. 2, January 9, 1980 Advertising Rates Upon Request Entered at the Post Office in Marietta, PA, as second class mail under the Act of March 3, 1879 Subscription Rate—$6.00/ year [Outside Lancaster County—$6.50/year] January 9, 1980 Robert and Sylvia Herr lick their lips as they look at their gingerbread house Looking for a new twist in your baking? Robert and Sylvia Herr “build” a gingerbread house Robert and Sylvia Herr of Maytown made this New Year’s holiday very special for their children and their friends. They created a large, edible gingerbread house to be used as a center piece for their annual New Year’s Eve Party. “I wanted to do some- thing special for the children this year,”’ Mrs. Herr told us. ‘“We planned to have the children help make the house, but it takes quite a bit of patience, and in the end my husband and I did most of the work.”’ The four Herr children— Jason, 12, Stephen, 11, Sabrena, 10 and Faith, 5— did get to taste some of the gingerbread before it was a completed house. Mrs. Herr made extra animals and trees so that the children would have something to munch on. “‘I knew if I didn’t that they would just beg to eat the house right away. After all the work that was put into it, I wanted it to last at least one day!"”’ Mrs. Herr got the idea of the house from several magazines, but the design and pattern of her house is unique. ‘‘We added where we thought we should. I didn’t follow a set pattern for the house."’ In addition to ginger- bread, the house is de- corated with M&Ms, hard candies, a Vanilla Wafer roof, a caramel chimney and even hard candies used as stained-glass windows. ‘‘I did the morter work on the chimney,’”” Mr. Herr tells “he Herr’s planned to eat their house on New Year's Eve. ‘‘Faith wants to save it for show and tell at Kinder- garten, but I don’t think it will last long enough,’’ Mrs. Herr laughs. Each New Year's Eve the Herr family and their guests gather up musical instru- ments and noise makers and go into the street in front of their home at midnight. “It’s sort of a tradition."’ Will the gingerbread house become a tradition as well. ‘We'll see about that,”’ Mrs. Herr says. For anyone interested in attempting to make a similar house, Mrs. Herr was good enough to give us her recipe for the gingerbread and the icing that holds the whole thing together. They follow. Gingerbread Dough 4 cups sifted flour 2 tablespoons sugar 2 teaspoons ginger | teaspoon baking powder 2 teaspoon baking sada pinch salt 1 cup syrup 2 cup butter Ya cup milk Combine first six ingredi- ents in a large bowl. On stove, bring to boil syrup and butter, then add milk. Add this mixture to the dry ingredients and stir until smooth. Wrap in aluminum foil and chill overnight. Snow Frosting 3 egg whites (at room temp- erature) 1 pound confectioners sugar 2 teaspoon cream of tartar Friendship Force to offer Lancaster exchange; visit or host someone from another country A public meeting for all persons in the county interested in taking part in an exchange program be- tween Lancaster and an unnamed foreign city will be held at 2 pm Saturday, January 12, at the Good N’ Plenty Restaurant, Smoke- town. Friendship Force, a non- profit, non-government or- ganization which has be- come the largest exchange program in the world, is sponsoring the meeting. Anyone considering eith- er going to another country or serving as host here will have the opportunity to hear about the exchange and fill out an application. No applications have yet been accepted, so that all those received at the meeting will have equal consideration. A total of 254 persons from Lancaster County will board a plane at Harrisburg International Airport in May, travel to a foreign land and remain there eight days. The same plane will bring an equal number of citizens from that country to Lancaster County for a similar visit. The first four days of the stay will be spent with a host family; the last four may be spent with another host family, or be used for travel. The entire trip will occupy ten days, two being reserved for plane travel. The January 12 meeting will be a no-food-served session for information and sign-up, with no money changing hands until appli- cations are accepted. A meeting for ‘‘ambassadors’’ and hosts will be held in February. Eugene R. Witmer is Lancaster exchange director for Friendship Force. He has established an office at 170 East Brook Road, Smoketown, on the second floor of Mill Stream Motor Lodge. Information is avail- able there or by phone at 291-9763. MARIETTA CITGO CITGO GAS—GROCERIES OPEN 5:30 A.M. — 8:30 P.M. DAILY SUNDAY 8:00 A.M.—6:00 P.M. | | ] I me dar fror
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