Union Sunday School Picnic At Hershey Park, Wednesday, July 14 — Don’t Forget Excitement As Flames Leap Out of Ground There was quite some excitement Local Folks Visit Okla-lowa Friends hast evening when flames leaped out {of the ground over a small area a- | long Route 230 west of the boro. Chief Myers, revealed that the the ig According to investigation | | | | it | MOST The -THE-MINUTE WEEKLY I N LANCASTER COUNTY ount Joy Bulletin VOL. XLVIII, NO. 6 MOUNT JOY Florin’s Community Picnic by UB Church Picnic, Evangelical | The sponsored by United Brethren Church and Sun- day School, will be held Park, near Lancaster on route July 14. Free and from the Park is being provid- Community the Florin Longs 230, to at transpoitation ed. Buses will leave the Florin | E.U.B. Church at 1:00 p.m. and at 530 p.m They will return at 9:00 p.m. Facilities for the | | tests Due to physical incapitation of | flames were the result of the igni- Pastor Summy the material for [tion of natural gas, seeping from a this article was not ready for the nearby line of the Manufacturer's Jast weeks’ edition Many have | Light and Heat Company, State | asked for a running account of | Highway Department workmen our trip to Oklahoma where five have been installing a drain across of us from Mount Joy were visit= | the highway at this point and ing several weeks ago in the was believed that the pipe may homes of Pastor Lupold and his have been damaged in some way. family and Mr. and Mrs. M. G.| The flames started when Oliver | Kaplan formerly of this place. | Ehersole was lighting a lantern. Those in the party making the | Friendship Fire Company respond- trip were Mr. Fzra Wolgemuth, | od and extinguished the fire. Miss FEizabeth Shelly, Mr and me meee) Ee Mrs. Miller Wolgemuth and the | writer of this article, Pastor sun- | 'T M E d Iwo Vien Lscape We left Mt. Joy on Thursday . evening of June 17th at 8:30 pm In Forced Landing heading west to Harrisburg and | py, local men, brothers, one a the Super Highway with the | pilot with four years’ experience | State of Oklohoma as our desti- | in the U. S. Navy, escaped injury nation. We stopped once on the | (hen their light plane made a Highway for refreshment for car | forced landing near Ironville at and for body Arriving at the | 3:30 pm Sunday. western terminus cof the highway | The two men, according to re- we entered Wilkinsburg near mid- | ports from the Donegal Airport, night to be greeted by a myriad of Marietta R1, were: Robert Bailey, light twinkling their silent wel- 28. Columbia: and Charles Bailey |, ccme to us from Pittsburgh in the | 30. this boro. valley below Continuing in al Robert Bailey, the pilot, was fly- | southwesternly direction from Pit- | ing the plane over the Lake Grubb | tsburgh we crossed the panhandle area, near Iionville, when ice | of West Virginia and began think- | formed in the air intake of the ing of Cambridge and Columbus, | carburetor causing the motor to Ohio which were before us on the stop and forcing them to make a (Turn to Page 5) forced landing. The wing of the plane first struck a tree and then |ion exclusively transportation of dinner baskets is also planned. The has scheduled management of Long's Park the for use of a pavil- Florin people. | Games and amusement are planned | | fo everyone. Tne various con- Park Shet- peanut scram- are in charge of which include bubble ter a ble, gum, baloon, shoe scramble, bag race, cracker eating, pie eating, rail driving, golf ball driving, ball throwing and travel- | ing contest. Prizes will be awarded to all the winners and also to the youngest and oldest person there. A | prize will be given to the largest) | family present also. Games scheduled include two ball games, Boys vs. Girls in after- | noon | will picnic 27 the plane came down in a field Fresh Air Kiddies owned by Lecnard Haertter, about : . , oi quarter of a mile east of Iron- Arrive In This Vicinity; * 2 According to reports, both men Twenty-seven Fresh Air child- | were flying low over the lake area ren are now enjoying vacations in | where the pilot's father in law, | this vicinity. They arrived Wed- | Raymond Smith, 1011 Locust St., nesday afterncon under the guar- | Coumbia, has a cottage.. dianship of Mrs. Harvey Spangler, | Officials said the wing was slight- Manheim R2, district chairman. ly dented by the impact with the The following families are enter- | tree and that temporary repairs faining the children: Mr, and Mrs. | Were made enabling the plane to Arthur Gingrich, Mr. and Mvs, Mil- | be flown to the airport for further jer Hess, Mr. and Mrs. John K. | repairs. Wolgemuth, Mr. and Mrs. J. Earl | Bis -— Martin and Mr. ard Mrs. Henry | BOY SCOUT MEETINGS Lehman, Mount Joy R2; M: and | Two important Boy Scout meet- Mrs. Paul Good, Elizabethtown R3: |ings are scheduled for this month, | Mr. Witmer Kraybill and Mr. and |it was announced by Scoutmaster Mrs. John Lutz, Mount Joy R1; | Earl Shelly. On July 12th at 7:00 p. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Gibble, Mount jm. the Sceuts will meet to prepare | Joy R1: Mr. and Mrs. Martin Mus- | for their stay at camp from July 25 ser, Florin; Mr. and Mrs. Oliver | to August 1st. Mateer, Mount Joy: Mr, and Mrs The Senior Scout meeting is Christian Moyer, Elizabethtown R3 | scheduled for July 15th. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Good, Mr. and TT TT ee Mrs. Henry Miller, Mr. and Mrs. | SEVEN OPPOSE BOOST Levi Brubaker, Mr. and Mrs. Heén- | The Marietta Gravity Water Co. ry Shenk, Mr. and Mrs John Forry | flag fifty percent. increase in| Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Emenheiser, | rity 3 4 rates at Harrisburg. Seven consum- | Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Docurte, Man- ; ers filed objections. heim R2; and Mrs. Christian Nolt, - ee en Columbia RI. ANS DEEDS RECORDED The Bctiow vill Hohl its Fannie G. Shonk, Mount Joy, to ick ie’ =» Ammon B. Hoffer, Sr., and Beulah | first family reunion since World R. Hoffer, Mount Joy, lot in Mount War II at Lititz Springs Sunday. oy. EE EE Co. Firemen’s Assoc’n Meets Here July 30th 7 I You Don't Protest were twenty-six members regular meeting of Fire Co. present at the the Friendship Thursday evening. Chief Myers during the month. held on reported no fires | It was announced that the month-| Mr. Elwood Martin, one of our lv meeting of the Lancaster County | lccal milk dealers, says that in Firemen's Ass'n will be held in Mt. his estimation customers are pay- for milk at | and Married Men Men at 6:30 p.m. A Friendship Circle the vs Single at 8:30 p.m close festivities for the day. ground ended its first week on July | better | ance Mount Joy, Pa., Thursday Afternoon, July 8, 1948 LINDEMUTH BACK IN JAIL — DEFAULTS BAIL Willis S. Maytown, charged with assault with SCHOOL TAX | ‘Weddings Thruout Our Community TWP. I'IXED AT TEN MILLS The auditors of Mount Joy Town- ship met with the School Board last Lindemuth, fifty-eight, Friday, July 2, to audit the intent to kill and aggravated assault [for the year ending July 1. | . and battery by Pvt. Rufus William The total receipts were $49,247,- ‘During Past Week : the Columbia sub-station, was 48. Expenses were $48,143.85 leav- . > 5 re-commited to the county prison ing a balance of $1,103.63. | Miss Melva Kline, daughter 0 for court in default of $1,500 bail at The contract for coal was award- | Mr and Mrs. Adam Kline, Man- a hearing before Alderman J. Ed- ed to Paul E. Hess of Florin. The heim R3, became the bride of Galen ward Wetzel Wednesday night. contract to paint the Florin school Z. Ebersole, son of the Rev. and Officer Williams said the man was awarded to Henry Maurer, of Mrs. Elmer E. Ebersole, Elizabeth- | _ 0 ely beat ‘his wife, Mae, ffty= Florin. town R2, at 2 p.m. Sunday in the | ight, with a ballpeen hammer in a The tax rate for the coming year | | Elizabethtown Church of the Breth- | second floor bedroom of their home was fixed at: property, 10 mills and ren. The bridegroom’s father officia- on. 19. Nus. Linderuth was personal tax, $5.00. ted. admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital It was decided to furnish trans- {with a possible fracture of the skull portation for those desiring to go to | Barbara Anne Walters as a result of the beating. She was East Donegal Schools during the John L. Francis [discharged from the hospital Wed- | coming term. The marriage of Miss Barbara | nesday. — od Anne Walters, daughter of Hons ssn esc cll A Wie | p G. Walters, 254 Marietta St., o | 0 Ia = | town and John L. Francis, son “ E thi Th t | 130 Enrol ed n y Mrs. Helen Fitzgerald, 6521 Lam- very ing a | 1 i bert Street, Philadelphia took | Ground Project ere place at 11:00 am Saturday, July | Happened At 3rd, in the Trinity Evangelical | The Rotary Club sponsored play- Congregational Church here. The | cnet ch ve Te Florin Recently 2nd with an enrollment of 150 mud LL. seeder, Dasior © e 80 attend- | Evangelical Congregational Church | Mrs. R. WwW. at morning and afternoon ges- {at Kemble Park, Philadelphia, of- | of the State Capitol, called on her the : ficiated, assisted by the Rev. Dal- | parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Her- Roberts, an employee than an percent. sions for week. The girls under the supervision of las L. Ziegler, paster of the church | shey while on her way to Philadel- e girls unde supervis ivi i re. business. | Mrs. James Eshleman divided their here on business ™ -- oes arles [time between crafts and organized | Mr. and Mrs. John Charles, South | Market street, left Sunday for De- games. The first week they made at- E D I Pl 9 tractive painted plates and started ast onega S ay- | troit, Mich., to spend their vacation luncheon sets. Wednesday after- | “ . . yy | wih Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Skeen noon. many dolls of all types and | Going Big and family. description were presented in the | Mrs. Emma Peifer is spending | Doll Show. One of the three prizes| Playgrounds, sponsored by the | the week with Mr. and Mrs. Abram | was won by Earl Shearer for the |East Donegal Twp. School District, |Engle at Marietta. i Brief News Fron ‘The Dailies For funniest doll and the other two pri- | are being operated in Florin and | Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Felty Lan- zes won by girls, Abbydine Markley | Maytown under the supervision of | caster visited Mrs. Adah Eicher and won a prize for the most beautiful | Mrs. Joan L. Saylor and Mr. John |My. and Mrs. B. F. Kauffman on [doll and Peggy Zimmerman for the |G. Hart. This is the first year for | Wednesday. [most unusual doll, made from a | playgrounds in both towns. The | Mr. and Mrs. George Mumper Sr. corn stalk. Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Aurion yy and Mrs. W. A. Berrier and The boys meanwhile were partici- | Legion in Maytown and the Town | Mr. A. D. Garber spent the week- Quick Reading Hall Association of Florin have rais- | There are 353 cases of polio at|pating in competitive games and re- end at Buck Ridge Camp Perry Co. Raleigh, N. C. to date. {lays in the mornings and baseball {cd the money needed for equipment. | Mrs. Sarah Schlegelmilch and Ed- Twin brothers. of York, married [and volleyball practice in the after- In observance of the 4th of July, |ward Hendeson spent the weekend twin sisters at Ripley, N. Y. | noons for the games scheduled to be | hoth playgrounds had a Bieyele lat the formers Camp in Huntington At least 571 persons lost their [played with the Marietta Play-|Show. In Florin the Boy's Prize for | county. { { : lives over the 3-day fourth week-|ground on a home and home basis [the most beautifully decorated bi- | Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Becker Jr. end. to be announced later. cycle was won by John Wagner. 4 family spent the weekend at Kansas City has the biggest wheat On Wednesday afternoon July {The winner of the Girl's Prize was | Maryland. [jam in years—T7100 cars waiting to 7th, the special event will be a | Connie Wisebarver. Glenn Hess, | Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Alwine, Mrs. be unloaded. bicycle show with prizes again be- | yeceived a prize for the most origin- | Fannie Erb, Mrs. C. S. Erb and russia. the United States and ev- | ing awarded and on July 15 the Pet | 4]ly decorated, while Phyllis Wol- | con, Christ visited Mr. and Mrs Russia, the United States ally en Lancaster County are harvesting | Show should attract much atterition | semuth, Darlene Gerlitski and San- NE. Hershey Sunday evening. Mr. | banner wheat crops. and be quite interesting and unusu- | dra Gordon received first, second | Alwine is recuperating from a re- While Barney Ewell, Lancaster, 1! and third prizes respectively for the | cant operation. was trying out for the Olympic Parents and public are cordial- {pest floats. | Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Vogel and team, his wife was shot by her ly invited to visit the Playground at In Maytown, James Glattacher | family of Lancaster spent the holi- sister. any ume, and Peggy Houseal won the prizes days with Mr and Mrs. Geo. Vogel There was a four-car collision on ig = . the best decorated bicycles. | Mr. and Mrs. Paul Diffenderfer for . the Harrisburg pike, five miles west HOLLINGER HEADS BAIN- The activities scheduled for the [and Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Shank, { of Lancaster. No one was hurt but BRIDGE May Toy e wl B ial next two weeks are spent the weekend at Wildwood, N ears were deraged, CA of July 13 -H W 30-month-old Lloyd Nolt, Ephra led president of the Bainbridge / alt Game - Marietta - Away - 10 Mr. and Mrs. A. G Walter of ta R2, had his legs badly mangled | Maytown Rotary ( uty at the {o.m.: July 15 - Ball Game - May- Florin entertained guests on Sunday when his father operating 2 yracto: | Weoley esting i fhe Conual #1 eon wn - Home - 10 a.m. July 16 - [at their cottage, Elizabethtown R2, drawn mower, accidentally drove ket in Bainbridge He succeeds | Pei Show = 10.2. m. where they are spending the sum- into the child i William Earl Gods- | i : mer ti | ch ilk, Landisville, presented the | July 20 - Dell Show a p. id Present were: Mr. and Mrs. Le- | ; : { : { past esident's pin t + retiring | Ball game - Maytown - home La ; Ye Toate KINGS DAUGHTERS CLASS AT past p ident's pin to the retirin He " 21 = Quoi Pitching Fi- [Roy B. Walters, LeRoy Jr., Charles 5. E DEMUTH'S g | present ay ot | Albert and Mary Esther of Lancas- MRS. E. LINDEMUTH'S HOME Other officers installed were as nals = 2 p.m.; July 22 - Swimming ‘ i The Rings Daughters Bible Class 1 Vv t OC Party 1 p.m.; July 23 - Contest Day | ter, Ralph Good, Upland, 2 a; hl follows incen onner, vice- | Part) ; fetes oo op Tonio. Chamberdburs he Church of God met Tuesday | : |Grace E. Wenger, C £2; of the Church of Go ne ox y presdent; Alioes Nagel, secretary; |= 2 p.m, Ime. ond Mis. Paul Good and famis evening at the home of Mrs. Ellen San lv 13 - Contest Day Mr. and Mrs. Pa x ‘ i John Charles, treasurer; Elwood Maytown July I - . : marl B. Walters and Lindemuth. The following were Smith. W M oo” ’ pm. ; July 14 - Handball Finals; | ly of Manheim; Ear . alters : ( “ ~ : | =mith, illiam unaon ana iviar- & sy J yd ail ‘ r. She Mr. and Mrs. esent: Mrs. C. F. Helwig, Mrs. | Six rd ine Barty - + | Hallie G. Walters, Presons b wh iD Landis, directors July 15 - Swimming Party Tw Tren Walters, Salunga; Mr. and | Mary Stover, Mrs. Dorothy Der r, | rt Oaks - 1 p.m.; Morning - Ball game | William We 5, § ga; Mrs. Tillie Sauder, Mrs. C. R. | Florin ~ Away Mrs. J. Ira Wolgemuth, Carl and Charles, Mrs. Eli Smeltzer, Mrs. | E t July 20 - 10 a.m. = Pet Show; | Joanne: Eva Greiner, Annie Warner Clara Sweigart, Mrs. Kate Barn- | ngagemen $ July ‘90 - 1:30 p.m. - Ball game | of Elizabethtown; Alma L. Keller, { hart, Mrs. John Sprout, Mrs. Hies-| Mr. and Mrs. Park Neiss, 21% Fast | i plorin - Away; July 23 - 9:30 |Mr. and Mrs Samuel H. Nissley tand, Miss Wilma Eaton, Miss May | Donegal St., announce the engage- m. - Track Meet {and Carol of Mount Joy; Mr. and Shreiner, Miss Anna Hoffer, (Mrs. ment of their daughter, Jean Claire, se mts smelt [Mrs. Clarence Myers, Mr. and Mrs. 4 . | Elsie Grove and Mrs. Limdlemuth. [to James A Tierney, son of Mr. THREE LOCAL BOYS ARE | Clayton Sreneran, i Wo Ye ind Mrs. Ambrose Tierney, New- ON DEANS LIST AT F&M i Horst, Miss Fannie Horst, od Mr. PASTOR RAY LUPOLD, [ ville. Miss Neiss is employed in the ; wdents al and Mrs. Paul Koser all of Florin. FORMER RESIDENT ILL property and supply division at the Threc Mt A ; Colles. | Daily vacation Bible School will Word hzs been received from | State Capitol, and Mr. Tierney is Franklin and I 1a yk open in the Florin Church of the | > ans { students id Mrs. Lupold in Oklahoma to the attending Thaddeus Stevens Trade | are on the Deans 1s! wd » 5 _ | Brethren Monday, July 19 Sessions | id exce ; ‘ing | : 2 | effect that Pastor Ray Lupcld has | School. No date has been set for who did exceptional wor dur {will be held Mondays through Fri- {had a physical collapse and is atthe wedding. the past semester, days from 7 to 9 p.m until July 30. | > el | present under the care of a phy- | 0 pee There will be classes for children, sician Full details are not on | JIM NAILED WHOPPER | M ntion | young people and All are had at this time IN SUSQUEHANNA RIVER ersona g {welcome eee | {MEETING AT THE DELL Tuesday, July 13th, a meeting of the Mount Joy and Donegal Pre: sby- | {terian Missionary Society will be | ‘held at the Dell, at Rheems at | | thirty o'clock, with a covered dish ( picnic, Mrs. Harry Hart, Lancaster, will Joy, July 30. ing enougn present Committee to council reported | and unless consumers protest the that council can not find their way | price will be upped. Mr. Mar- clear at this time to finance a new | tin says that usually no one ap- engine. rears to protest and the State! A proposed new amendment was Commission takes it for granted | read by Elmer Zerphey. | thet people are willing to pay | Two new members were elected more. to membership, George Maxwell | A public hearing will be held and Charles Fogie Jr. in the Court House at Lancaster Carl Coen was elected to the En- July 19 at 10:00 am. This hear- fertainment committee. ing has been called by the Milk The financial secretary read the Control Commission upon petition following balances: General Fund o” the Inter-State Milk Producers | £99.53: Entertainment Fund $605.49: Co perative, Inc. In compliance Building Fund $1,048.79; Relief | With accepted custom, the Com- | Fund $2.638.95: Servicemen’s Fund | will receive testimony | $996.52; New Uniform Fund $562- Which 15 periment to the produc- 18: Disabled Firemen’s Fund $758 Hon and distribution of fluid milk 95. ond other milk products in the | bs Lancaster Milk Marketing Area. The president appointed Richard Divit, James Workman and Joseph Habecker, to attend the Ladies Aux. | meeting with the idea of creating | and good fellowship. All bills were ordered paid as read. EE a TOO FAST FOR CONDITIONS Among the motorists prosecuted | at Lancaster recently was Paul E. | ing too fast for conditions. | cuted | give a report on the Synodical. — SPEED VIOLATION Chief of Police Park Neiss, prose- Nick J. burg, Pa, on a Kontris, Chambers- | speeding violation at 50 miles per hour on East Main | Hess, of Florin, charged with driv- | Street. He will be summoned for a | R2, and Betty Jane Bell, Elizabeth- | hearing before Squire Hockenberry. | town R1. a Shenk, a former resident of town. | tance reported. We must hand it to our Boro Supervisor, he can do more than Mr. and Mrs. George anne ON BUS SERVICE keep our town in order. Here js) re Spemiing their vacston at Al |p MARIETTA-E-TOWN one that will make our Isaac Wal- lantic City. . A The Public Utility Commission tons look like pikers. Ir. Elwood Martin and family, of [will hold a hearing in the County Sunday, while fishing in the North Barbara St., are spending 4! Court House Monday at 10 a.m. on river, he caught a three an three- | few days at Atlantic City, N.J. an application for the right to op- fourth pound salmon. The fish Mrs. John B. Greiner and Som, | erate bus service between Marietta was so large that Mr. Smeltzer |returned home after spending the | nd Elizabethtown. | could barely span it around the [past month with her parents at| Benjamin H. Boltz filed the ap- body with both hands He says | Minneapolis, Minnesota. | plication. this was the largest one he ever Mr. and Mrs. Donald Shenk, of ert 4 AY eee. cought. Brooklyn, New York, visited Mr. NOT VERY CREDITABLE Se. and Mrs. Lee Ellis and family on| A total of 205 persons were on MARRIAGE LICENSES Marietta Ave., over the recent relief rolls in Lancaster County | Paul Melvin Ament, Mount Joy |holidays. {during the week of June 26, the Myr. Shenk is the son of Carl State Department of Public Assis- $2.00 a Year in Advance Woman Arrested Wednesday; Linked To Skeleton In Ceiling Mrs. Hazel Lee Landis, twenty- he purchased the property last eight, wife of Howard 8S, Landis, | September and found it while he Elizabethtown R2, and mother of | making repairs. ‘ ‘ : i Mrs. Landis, according to Sgt. three cnildren, including a nine- | Ries. claims the. child. was bom months-old baby was arrested yes-| dead in January, 1945, while she terday on charges linked to the|and her husband were living in the finding of a skeleton of a new born house infant in a house near Elizabeth-| Ms, Landis also stated, police town June 21. said, that she had not told her hus- Sgt. Herman Ries, of the State | band because he was badly upset Police, charged Mrs. Landis with | over an accident in which he was concealing the birth of a child and | invelved, He was the driver of a improper disposal of the body. | stone truck on the Havrisburg pike Constable Anthony Madonna, who | cn Nov. 24, 1944, which collided served the warrant, permitted Mrs. | with a car in which four persons . . . | . Landis to sign her own bail to ap- | were killed while enroute to work pear later before Alderman Ed-| at the Middletown Depot. ward Wetzel. The charge against Mrs. Landis, The skeleton was found in the | on orders of District Attorney John ceiling of a Summer kitchen at the ! M. Ranck, is a summary convic- nome of Lucion M. Snyder, Eliza- tion offense and carries a maxi=- bethtown Rl. Snyder told poties. y mum fine of $50 as the penalty. Mortuary Record Throughout This Entire Locality Mrs. The Local News For The Past Week Very Briefly Told Manheim adopted parking meters Christianne Harry, seventy, and ordered 230 installed immedi- | at Columbia. ately. William J. Woodland, sixty-nine, 138 parking meters have been in- | at Rohrerstown. stalled on the streets at Elizabth-| Mrs. Lydia Meister, eighty-two, town. Columbia R1 on Friday. Joseph Fisher, 74, Paradise, cut off | Mrs. Fianna B. Kulp, 88, widow of several fingers with an electric | John H. Kulp, at Palmyra. Enos hedge trimmer, | Kulp of this place is a son. When a tractor pulling a combine | Mrs. Annie B. Schweager, seven= struck a stone and upset in Man- |ty-nine, at the home of her daugh- heim, twp. Monday, it was destroy- | ter, Mrs. Annie Gibble, Elizabeth- town R3. Washingtonboro has asked for Mrs. Maggie Harnish Becker, wife $12,000 on the liquid fuel tax re-|of H. Haldy Becker, Lancaster Rl, Joseph's Hospital, Charles H. ed by fire. fund money from the County Com- |at St. missioners. | Mount Joy, is a son and Martha M., Mrs. Helen Stauffer, 50, Mount- | wife of Isaac Siegrist, Mount Joy ville, is in jail for receiving stolen |R1, is a sister. goods and carrying concealed desd- | ly weapons. | Miss Anna Mary Kaylor David Eberly, 13, near Bricker- | Miss Anna Mary Kaylor, eighty, ville, was one of four thrown from R2, died at the Mes- a cart drawn by a tractor. The Home, Harrisburg, Friday. She tongue dropped. tell oe en was a daughter of the late Isaac and | Barbara Kaylor. She is survived by five brothers: Frank, Lineus, Neri, Those In The Service Isaac and Allen, all of Elizabethtown ' [RD Ray A. Mumma, gunners mate, | second class, USN, son of Mr. and | Ss Mrs. Arthur Mumma of 305 East | Mors. Amanda S. Kready Main Street is serving with’ Subor- | Mrs. Amanda S. Kready, seven- dinate Group One of the Philadel- ty-five, Rheems, was found dead in phia Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet, {the attic of her home at 12:30 p.m. billeted aboard the seaplane tender | Tuesday by her daughter-in-law, USS Chandeleur which is the ac- | Mrs. Robert B. Kready, Rheems. commodation ship for this group en- | According to Dr. J. Hoffman { Garber, Elizabethtown deputy cor- death was due to suicide by He the daughter-in- who resides next door in the “Operation | had brought dinner to ap- | the victim and found her hanging in | the attic. Dr. oth- tim had used a sashcord for a noose. inactivation, preserva- of gaged in the tion and security maintenance oner, surplus Navy Ships. The ships of this Fleet are under- | law, | hanging. said going a change known as double house, have a grotesque to the winches and Zipper” and pearance due “cocoons” cov- Garber said the vic- ering gun mounts, er weather-deck gear from the ap-| He said the victim had been in ill plication of vinyl plastic. Each ship | health for several years and lately is kept entirely moistureproof by | was suffering from melancholy. dchumidifying machines that cir- She was the daughter of the late culate dry air through all compart- | Henry and Fannie Sumpman Bard. ments and weather-deck coverings. | gq, viving is one son, Robert B. Mumma entered the Naval service | groady Rheems, and three grand- January 29, 1943, and received his | recruit training at the Naval Train- | puneral from the Miller Funeral (Turn to page 6) | Home at Elizabethtown Friday at 2 LER ae m. Interment in the Florin Ceme=- YEARS PROGRAM DISCUSSED G. Walter Sloan, vice-president | as i of the Rotary Club, discussed the y program for the year during the Week's Birth Record meeting held at noon Tuesday. Four visitors . were present. They were: | Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Ament, |W. A. DePerrot and R. C. Welch, | Landisville, a daughter at 6:35 p.m. (both of Lititz; Robert L. Madaria, Sunday at St. Joseph's Hospital. | Elizabethtown: and Jesse Snavely,| Mr. and Mrs. Howard Gearhart, Lr, Lancaster. Elizabethtown R3, a son Monday at A Wf | St. Joseph's Hospital. DEEDS RECORDED Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Denlinger Harry H. Krall, Mount Joy. to of Mount Joy Rl, a son Thursday at William B. and Mabel Hendrix, Mt. | the Lancaster General Hospital. Joy, premises, S. Market Street Mr. and Mrs. Dale Berrier, Eli= Mount Joy, $6,500 abethtown R3, a son Monday at the W. D. and Ella W. Groff, Eliza- | Lancaster Osteopathic Hospital. bethtown, to Anthony F. and Mil- Mr. and Mrs. John T. McDonald, (dred Terranova, Philadelphia, lot on Susanville, Calif., a boy in the Ridge Road, Mt. Joy Twp. Riverside Hospital, Susanville, re= | - Sires cently. Mrs. McDonald is the for- | Wom AN FRACTURES WRIST mer Edith Gieg, daughter of Mr. | Fannie Ebersole, sixty-four, Man- and Mrs. Harry Gieg, Sr., May4 heim R2, was treated at the Lan- |{own. | caster General Hospital Wednesday | Mr. and Mrs. Robert Becker, of after she suffered a fractured right | Rheems, a daughter Wednesday at wrist in a fall at her home. the Lancaster General Hospital,