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Vol. 80, No. 30, July 30, 1980
Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin
MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA.
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John Zerphey, athletic director of the Donegal Braves
Midget Football Program, adjusts a new helmet for Ken
Byrd, a member of the Donegal Braves “C’’ team.
New helmets readied
for Donegal Braves
Practice for Donegal
Braves Midget Football
Program will begin next
Monday, August 4, 6 to 8
pm at the High School. All
boys age 8 to 13, living in
the Donegal area, are
eligible. Also, girls age 8 to
13 are eligible for cheerlead-
Fall sports
physicals
Donegal High School fall
sports physicals will be held
in the high school health
rooms for grades seven
through 12 next week. All
physicals will be held from 8
am to 12 noon. The schedule
is as follows:
Monday, August 4, foot-
ball physicals;
Wednesday, August 6,
hockey and girls’ tennis
physicals;
and Friday, August 8,
soccer physicals.
ing positions for each of the
four teams.
Members of the football
organization were kept busy
last week putting the face
masks from old helmets onto
the new NOC SAE approved
helmets. The work was done
in the garage of Gill
Cornwall, Mount Joy.
The organization suffered
a setback last September
when members were in-
formed they would need
new helmets for the 1980
season. The total cost of the
helmets is $2,100. To date
the organization has re-
ceived $866 from businesses
in the Mount Joy, Marietta
and Maytown area. The
organization would like to
thank the businesses and
individuals who have do-
nated to the helmet fund.
Anyone still desiring to help
may send donations to:
Donegal Braves Midget
Football, Helmet Fund, c/o
Union National = Bank,
Mount Joy, PA 17552.
United Telephone Company of Pennsylvania
files tariff changes for local service rates
On Tuesday, July 29, The
United Telephone Company
of Pennsylvania filed tariff
changes for basic local
service rates with the
Pennsylvania Public Utility
Commission. The request
would increase United's
annual revenues by about
6.5 percent—or only 3
The Lancaster County
Redevelopment Authority
has announced that its new
Rental Housing Improvment
Program (RHIP) will provide
loans at six percent interest
to landlords who rent to low
and moderate income fam-
ilies.
Eligible applicants may
borrow up to $24,000 or
$6,000 per rental unit, for a
maximum of six units. The
loan will be secured by a
mortgage and repaid in
equal monthly installments
over five to ten years.
To qualifiy for a loan,
landlords must:
Own rental units outside
Lancaster City;
percent after local, state and
federal taxes.
The request was filed to
become effective September
27, 1980.
In making the announce-
ment, L.G. Wigbels, pres-
ident of United said, ‘‘Our
last request for a general
has low interest loans
Certify that at least SO
percent of their tenants are
in the low to moderate
income range;
Certify that they will
maintain this percentage of
low to moderate income
tenants during the life of the
loan;
Agree to maintain rents at
specified levels.
The deadline for applica-
tions is Friday, August 29.
To find out if you can
qualify for a low-interest
loan, contact the Redevelop-
ment Authority, Lancaster
County Courthouse, 4th
floor, P.O. Box 3480, S50
North Duke Street, Lan-
caster 17603; (394-0793).
Mount Joy’s Maxwell
pitches one-hit shutout
Everything went right for
the Mount Joy junior-
midget baseball team at last
Wednesday’s New Era
Tournament game held at.
Kunkle Field. The Mount
Joy team opened the
tournament by blasting
Manor Ridge 12 to 0.
Much of the team’s
success can be credited to
pitcher Glenn Maxwell who
not only threw a one-hit
shutout but also hit two
home runs and a single.
Mount Joy started things
in the first inning, combin-
ing three singles, a walk, a
Manor Ridge error and a
wild pitch to score two of
their 12 runs. Another run
came in the second off
Mazxwell’s first home run.
The team really clinched
things in the third when it
scored five more runs. The
inning began with a lead-off
home run by first basemen
Wayne Emenheiser. Mike
Shelly and Keven DeHoff
each had a single with two
down, and Shelly scored on
throwing errors. Rodney
Wilson was then hit on the
helmet. He had to leave the
game but was not injured.
With one swing of the bat
Maxwell added three runs to
the Mount Joy score board
with his second home run.
Four runs were scored
during the final four in-
nings. With the combination
of hitting and excellent
pitching by Mount Joy, the
Manor Ridge team did not
have a chance.
local service rate increase
was requested six years ago
in June, 1974, and was
granted only in part in
March, 1975. In the five
years that have since
passed, the cost of living has
climbed over SO percent—
and our local rates never
changed. We have been
successful in our efforts to
“While our $5.5 million
proposal affects customers
differently, the result means
the average residential cust-
omer’s bill increases some 5
cents per day. . .an average
business customer’s bill
increases some 21 cents per
day,”’ Wigbels said.
“This request for an
overall increase in our
revenues is a must,”
Wigbels said, ‘‘since ours is
a business where reliable
service is paramount. We
need the additional reven-
ues to offset the adverse
impact of inflation and
expand and maintain facil-
ities so service does not
deteriorate. We also need
additional revenues to build
new facilities to meet
service growth in our areas,
as well as to offer customers
the advanced products that
technology now provides.
“Our long term record
clearly indicates that we
have always exercised care-
ful cost and expense
controls.”” Wigbels con-
tinued, ‘“We have been able
to delay a general rate
increase for the last few
years only by imposing even
tighter controls, postponing
less critical projects and
purchases. In short, we have
practiced many of the extra
‘belt-tightening’ actions our
customers may have used or
experienced in their own
homes and lives.
*“‘Our request is a fair one
by any comparison, and
considering the 50 percent
rise in the cost of living, it is
a modest and reasonable
one.
“We look forward to
prompt and fair evaluation
by the PUC so we can put
new revenues to work
immediately to continue our
service improvement - and
expansion programs,” Wig-
bels concluded.
John Nobile, United’s
local area service manager,
noted these examples of
monthly local service rate
increases: residential pri-
vate lines in Mountville and
Mount Joy from $10.50 to
$12.60; two party service
increase from $8.65 to
$10.05. Private business
lines will go from $19.45 to
$24.55. In Elizabethtown
private lines go from $9.75
to $11.60; two party from
$8.00 to $9.35 and a private
business line from $18.15 to
$22.80. Columbia and Mari-
etta rates would be: private
line, $9.10 to $10.75; two
party $7.45 to $8.75; private
business line $17.00 to
$21.30.
Other proposals by United
include changes in zoning
and base rate areas that
would mean lower charges
for some 4000 customers.
Changes in various supple-
mental equipment, recur-
ring charges and non-
recurring charges to specific
items of equipment were
also filed.
Monday throygh Friday,
August 4 to 8, Vacation
Bible School co-sponored by
Glossbrenner United Meth-
odist Church and Florin
Church of the Brethren,
from 7:00 to 8:45 pm.
Monday, Wednesday and
Friday of next week fall
sports physicals will be held
This week’s calendar
in the high school health
rooms. Check schedule on
front page of Susquehanna
Times.
Tuesday, August S, at
7:30 pm, a meeting of the
Maytown Civic Association
in the East Donegal Town-
ship Municipal Building.