ye! aving they way cket, foods k up vings fers, , @ ren lo To or ney Sa i ARE i - I i... ONE Eu cl eo. aaa There's No Better Way to Reach the People In This Community Than Thru Our Colum No Ar Dosen J MOST INUTE WEEKLY LANL ASTER COUNTY teil: The Mount J oy Bulletin Mortuary Throughout 1 This Entire Locality Mus. Christian Eckert, 69, at’ Co= That much talked about $62 mil= | ee lion air base which many thought | x» 1 N 30 would locate in the Donegals, is VOL. x, 0. absolutely out. Assistant Air Force Secretary Edgar V. Huggins made 4 . that announcement out of Wash- Lt. Reem s Wi ow ington last Friday afternoon. y Huggins said the Air Force made R ht H b d an “comprehensive” study of some eceives us n S 30 Pennsylvania sites altogether, six in Lancaster County. Medal of Honor They were found unsuitable, he seid, for reasons ranging from un- The widow of Lt. Robert Dale derground caverns at some places | Reem, of Elizabethtown, received to the fact that th ewind blows in| her husband's Congressional Medal the wrong direction for runways] of Honor at Washington, D. C. last at other places week. : “A location near Donegal, Penn- He was a second lieutenant in the sylvania, from all outward appear- ances seemingly best met U. S. Air | he smothered a hand grenade ex- ’ depot | plosion with his hody on Nov. 6, 1950. He thus shielded other mem- bers of his platoon. His wife, Donna, who lives in received the nation’s Force requirements for the facility,” said the Huggins state- ment, “However, earth borings and geo- logical engineering studies just | Lyons, N. Y, completed, disclosed that sink holes | highest award from Under Secre- and underground cavities beyond | tary of the Navy Francis P. White- the ground water table would re- | hair. quire millions of dollars above nor- The commandant of the Marine mal construction costs.” Corps, Lt. Gen. Lemuel C. Shep Air Force engineers said they perd, was also present. The lieutenant’s wife, dressed in fect the required filling of such | @ neat gray suit and blue hat, held sinkholes would have on the water | back her tears as the medal was handed to her but her eves were Specific reasons for the rejection | filled. were not itemized for the other With her at the ceremony, which cites. was held in the Pentagon, were the That marked the end of a seven- | dead officer's parents from Eliza- month discussion that has split |bethtown, his grandparents, Mr. and Loncaster County into segments | Mrs. H. E. Reem Sr., Elizabethtown; favoring and ovposing the hase. H. E. Reem Sr, of Elizabethtown: Won't Effect Olmsted three sisters: Mrs. Luther Coble, Cancellation of these sites is not | Mrs. Earl S. Royer, and Mrs. John expected to materially affect the | Seifert Jr, all from Elizabethtown. were also uncertain about what ef- surply in the Donegal area. number of personnel employed at Also two brothers and their wi- the Olmsted Air Force Base Hug- | ves: Mr. and Mrs. William Reem gins stated. and Mr, and Mrs. Harvey Reem, all ———— 0 of Elizabethtown. Also present were the parents of I 1 d Mrs. Reem, Rear Admiral] R. M. Homer Reitz PI €a i li, U. . N. retired, and Mrs, Zimmerli, Guilty; Is Jailed |“ —— TWO RECENT FIRES BUT For Two Years FORTUNATELY, NO DAMAGE The Friendship Fire Company Homer Reitz, of Jamacia Plains, here was summoned to the home of Mass, charged with larceny by | paul Brandt, East Main street at Bailee of a tractor-trailer ‘truck | g.15 p.m. Sunday, when the oil valued at $5,000 from the Keystone | hymer became flooded and ignited. Holstein Sales, Inc., here last Feb-| However, by the time firemen ar- vuary, pleaded guilty in court and] pjved, Brondt had the oil burner was sentenced to one to two years | under contro] and there was no in the county prison. damage. Judge Joseph B. Wissler also im- The homes of John H. Becker pesed a $100 fine and costs. and Robert Gantz, Manheim R2. Mr. Lloyd Derr, of the Keystone | were threatened by a fire at 2 p. m. Holstein Sales, testified Reitz left Saturday when a grass fire broke last February 16 with a load of cat- out on the Becker property. Fire tle which was delivered at Hast- | Chief Ralph Bashore, of the Man- ings, Nebraska. He failed to return| heim Fire Co., said approximately with the truck and six months later | two acres were burned over bue it was found abandoned in Boston. | there was no property damage. Reitz had been employed only a — ee few weeks before he committed the MAYTOWN COUPLE WEDDED FIFTY YEARS SUNDAY armel lis Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Ney. of Maytown, celebrated their fiftieth Authority Names wedding anniversary last Sunday. Open House was held at thei Three Members home in their honor, from 2 p. m. to 4 p. m. for relatives and friends. Three men have been named by Mrs. Ney is the former Minnie the East Hempfield Township { Kraybill. The couple were married School Board to represent the dis- | by the Rev. Martin Rutt, of Eliza- trict on the Hempfield Joint School | pethtown and have lived in May - that will build and main- | town forty-four years. tain the proposed junior-senior They have three children: Mary, high school for the area. wife of Harry G. Martin, Hummels- The men named are: S. Clyde town; Dorothy, wife of John P. Weaver, Fast Petersburg; William | Singer, Maytown: and Elizabeth, F. Hoffman, Landisville, and Chris- | wife of John H. Drace, Maytown. ti'n Neff, Rohrerstown. Ral smc The West Hempfield Township | COURT CONTINUES CUSTODY and Mountville borough districts | HEARING UNTIL FEB. 27 each will have one man on the five- A hearing over the custody of man authority. David W. Raudabaugh, Lumber St., EI Wiser —— this borough, scheduled for last CHARGES WERE DROPPED, week, was continued to 2:30 p. m. MAN MARRIED PROSECUTRIX ( Wednesday, Feb. 27. Charges against Robert H. Dur- Charles J. Bennett, 45 E. Main St. ning, of Philadelphia, were not| maternal grandfather of the boy, pressed by the Court on payment |and his wife, Catherine J., are ask- of the costs to permit him to marry | ing the Court to award the boy's the prosecutrix, Alice Decker, of | custody to them. Maytown. He was charged with! The loy presently resides with fornication and bastardy. his mother, Martha Raudabaugh Durning pleaded guilty two | Williams, on Lumber street, in this weeks ago, but the court continued | place. the case when the couple express- Tet ed intentions of getting married. VERA L. HOWER, OF FLORIN, County Probation Officer Edgar | GRANTED A DIVORCE Barnes notified the court that the Vera L. Hower, of Florin, was costs had been paid, arrangements | granted a divorce from Harry R. were made for the wedding and |Hower, on the grounds of indigni- that the couple will reside in Co- | ties by the court. The Howers were lumbia. married April 8, 1950 and separat- weet ll A flee eee ed April 22, 1951. FOUR HOUSES BURNED, DY TEN PERSONS HOMELESS HONORED AT A SHOWER Ten persons, including five child-| Miss Mary Lou Rohrer, Salunga, ren, were left homeless in the wake | whose marriage to James Richard of a spectacular fire that swept Shuman, Lancaster R1, will take four frame houses at the Stoverdale | Place March 2, was honored at a Mount Joy, Pa., Thursday MRS. MARTIN FREY WAS WEDNESDAY ‘Mount Joy-Etown Ambulances Wili Exchange Service + six children were her g ed with After , they went on to deal ie, wife of Jacob Schock; wife of Grayhill Wolgemuth; Friendship Fire Marine Corps, died in Korea after | the Elizabethtown Pioneer Elizabethtown letters and flowers and spends her Bible and caring for her . with which she has a conversationalist discusses topics of the day with her ; volorfui different pieces backed up Mr. statement, light it.” EE a ——— Monthly Meeting Of PT Association AtHossler’sSchool Rapho township and Michael Good » group decided to lamps or paper recent Centennial Cele- y appoint two members of Hossler’s school, mas lighting in 1952 patrons entertained The following patrons appeared on , was in charge, Regular GERALD BERRIER GIVEN Paul Nauman, | ) | PARTY ON ISTH BIRTHDAY visor of music : ier, Donegal Springs evening at 8:00 o'clock tained with a piano Home on sang two selections. The film, | were 18 guests present and games nessed for, Power” is a picture of the power Susquehanna river : was completely December Entertainment following winners of Frances Schroll, Donald Leedom, r, H. Foster, Ann Spangler eee plans were made | ‘Week’s Activities At East Donegal |: ‘School, Maytown on Feb. 15 the program will be de- voted to the discussion of the top- ¢ “Is My Child Ready for School?” the pamphlet compiled by Dr. Z. Rummel Ph. . and made avail- two spelling classes, a Penna. last E. Baughman, be published later would appreciate ¢ mation will please Wood wil] discuss the and chairman of the union committee, OC es ee Poultry Specialist | Will Speak Here Next Thurs. Eveg. Next Thursday IS ENTERTAINED ON HER 75TH BIRTHDAY R1, Hospital Tuesday. and Mrs. Salunga, a son Monday at the Lan- , Sat, Mount Joy R1, General State College, will speak at a meet- | ing of interest to poultrymen in the Lancaster Poultry Industry Approximately time to check over your business for the past years. |] erintendent Rhodesia, Musser of town. —— JOINS HUSBAND IN ALASKA . E. V. Chadwick, daughter of 1 has left ca, to join her returns from your ing flock, depends on the pullets you have to house next fall. et Ae. ee Egg quality and egg prices go hand | MAYTOWN MAN INJURED State Police reported a car oper- | Sipling, ent stock, through the egg firmness of the | while making a left turn, collided factors to consider are | with a car operated by Miss Lillian s north of Mari- shell re atid ells, ts i 2 brush burns and Geig was treated tors are your management pr actice | for a laceration of the right ear hy camp meeting grounds near Mid- | recent shower given at the home of dletown, Miss Helen Shuman, Lancaster Rl, (Turn to page 8) | Dn. Kottkamp. Afternoon, February 14, STUDENTS HERE DEMONSTRATION ON Assembly Mount presented Power and William with first bulbs the smallest largest light bulbs made displayed for Gochnauer «a sodium jamp, por lamps and florescent lamps The ‘Have Membership Of 5 Hundred 50 meeting of Mt. Sportsmen 's held Monday evening with approx- imately 200 President Lancaster | Sportsmen's Ephrata Friday Four new members were accept- into the total membership of 550. Game reported 208 rabbits trapped during nounced the the Sporter. Zerphey, -. Charles Schlegelmilch show- the movies of his bear to Kodiak Island, also had the head and skin on dis- — YSBURG COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER i a regular meeting of the mem- of our Gettysburg s engaged as nual commencement [ on Tuesday, . [| CHARLES W. SILLER, | IS SECTION ACS elected Charles W, Siller, y Zine Co., He succeeds W. J. . Siller, 1951, General and Mrs. a son Monday at the + is stationed Jase, February 5th. of Mission stationed at Base there Ee ADJUDICATION FILED Funds in the estate of the late Mecrris N. Stauffer, of Rapho town- ship, were released for distribution the amount being $886.50, The Dailies For Quick Reading | $61,847,244 last McCulley as Mh Robert light Hawthorne | producing light from chem- reflector ending employed 250 person , Boiling Springs high school senior, i baking champion velop a luxury-type The residence of the will become a convent for , monthly bus service at been nicknamed Oyster causing $10,000 dama- The famed cow that 17x25% inch door later removed with grease, and January. in a silo, and was birth to three calves stl Aree Lancaster County FFA Arranges Two Future Meets » monthly meeting of the Donegal High. A member of each chapter of the Thursday speaker for the an- passed that the basketball meet Cr host would provide The FFA teams will play : who was chairman-elect served 1950. He Louis Siller, ———— A Qe Week's Birth Record . and Mrs. a daughter : r of each sport will re- ceive a plaque, Robert Swope was elected dele- ON A TRIP TO FLORIDA to 314 years in prison for steal $85,000 from the mail. He plead no defense West Main street, ar an auto trip thru the South. " roses are in full toes and cabbage are being harves- Tampa, . and Mrs, daughter at the Bulawayo Hospital, WILL SOON BE 102 Miss Rebecca Hoffer, ed here nearly all her life, 102 years old her present she resides in Chula Vista, a son of Irvin W. and is AN ELLEN FUNK ESTATE Orphans’ Court, there remains for | distribution among the heirs $1,094. 26 in the estate of Ellen B. Funk husband, who is R2 and Rachel Ann Murray Bliz.. | abethtown RI. Joseph Gromling, Mt. Joy R2 and a 2! mill real estate tax for 1952 | was Elizabethtown to meet the cost of the newly-in- J stalled fire hydrants there, Winifred C. Tripp, $2.00 a Year in Advance Brief News From ‘The Local News ‘The Past Week Very Briefly Told $110.70 was stolen at the Colum — i big Theatre Thursday night Fire burned a hole in the roof of causing damage estimated at $5,000, Harry Lamparter, of Mountville, f ter an illness of one month. She was born at Milton Grove. a daughter of the late Abraham H. and Diana Greiner Good, and was a member of the Covenant Evan= gelical United Brethren church. She is survived only by nephews exhibited five turkeys and won six prizes at the New York State Tur- key Show Donald Agesen, 17, Lancaster R3 heard intruders the other night, got’ flout of bed, grabbed a revolver, | stumbled, fell and shot himself in the chest, Two Marietta men, John Peelor and his brother-in-law Charles D Billett, were arrested for stealing hub caps off cars and poor boxes from two Catholic churches at Lan- caster — Wen ‘News In General From Florin For The Past Week Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Todd of Manheim called on Mr. George Shetter and family on Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Naylor of | West Chester were Sunday guests of Mrs. Sarah Schlegelmilch. Mrs. Henry Grumlock and Mrs. r | Paul Schmuck, of Annville spent Yas | Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Benj. | F. Kauffman. Messrs Christ and John Zeiters, | of Middletown and Miss Minnie | Shelley of Lancaster were guests of | Mr. Samuel Shelley on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Vogle and! family spent Sunday at Harrisburg | the guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. Bretz. Mrs. Lillian Hamilton spent Wed - vesday at Lancaster with Mrs Ruth Pierce Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Myers en- tertained the following to supper on Saturday evening: Mr. and Mrs | { Columbia abethtown Harry B. Kauffman, 74; Columbia Carl B. Korn, at Glendale, Calif. Mis. Clay Miller, of Landisville, is a sister Mrs. William Kauffman Mrs. Amanda G. Kauffman, 87, of 820 Fourth street, Lancaster, wi= the York Bar Bell Co. at Marietta | dow of William Kauffman, died Sunday at St. Joseph's Hospital af= 1, at the Columbia Hospital. | | | A and nieces, | is a son. | Albert Eshenbaugh. (Turn to page 5) ———- — CHILD ESCAPES DEATH WHEN PINNED UNDER CAR to death yesterday wher he was { on Route 241 near Elizabethtown. | The child was admitted to St. | Joseph's Hospital and reported in apparently fair condition last night. Mohr, Bainbridge. tll A ee —— AERO CLUB ELECTION OF OFFICERS The Chiques Aero Club held their meeting Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. Arthur Hostetter with ten members present, come~ Farl Walters of Landisville, and | Pleting their fourth successful Mr. and Mrs. Daniel O. Brubaker, of Donegal Springs Road year. Having retained the officers for Rev. and Mis. Abram V2 four year period, a re-election entertained the following to dinner | on Sunday: Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Baugher, Mrs. Emma Eshleman, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Heckman, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Breneman Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Myer The following guests visited Mr. and Mrs. George Mumper Sunday: Mr and Mrs. James Berrier, Mr and Mrs. Charles Bittner, Mr. and | Mrs. John Bender, Mr. and Mrs Benjamin Bender and children of i Milton Grove, Mr. and Mrs. Martin (Turn to page 8) a FIRE CO. AUXILIARY SERVED CHICKEN & WAFFLES Friendship Fire Company Auxil- | iary served a chicken and waffle dinner at the fire house on Sun- day. The meal was very appetizing, the patronage good and a neat sum was realized for the ambulance fund. ee tll AY 5 se ee FURLOW GETS 2's YEARS FOR STEALING $85.000 C. Donald Furlow, Lancaster postoffice employe, was sentenced ment of guilt. He will serve his time at Lewisburg penitentiary A WAR MERORIAL MEET'G. There will he a meeting of the | War Memorial committee in the Fire House on Tuesday evening, | Feb. 19 at 8 o'clock. : a WAS DRIVING TOO FAST Floyd Swarr, Mount Joy RI, was apprehended by the State Po- lice for exceeding the legal speed limit in East Hempfield township ——— — eee LETTERS GRANTED Flmer S. Myers, Mount Jov Ri. rr te AG LEVIED MILL TAX ng which is an acknowledg- was held as follows: president Clair | Shave vice president, Alvin Reist; John Herr, secretary; Samuel Bals- | treasurer; Simeon Horton, and | | Director and Norman Sprecher. The club is now using a New Piper Pacer and has just returned | tron a trip to Florida by Mr. and Mrs. C. Sharpe and Mr. Phares | Landis. Legion Auxiliary Donates ‘To Child Welfare | Fina’ arrangements were made to | { { | { hold a ham card party by Walter S. Ebersole American Legion Aux- iliary Post 185 at their regular | monthly meeting Tuesday evening at the post home. Bridge, 500 and pinochle will be played. The date is next Monday, Feb. 18. The ad- mission will be $1 and one ham will be given for every two tables. One ham door prize will also be given $5 to the child welfsre and $2 for ing to be held in March. They also decided to buy a new set of flags for use during the meetings. Two tickets were purchased for the lecture by Lady Baton Powell, noted Girl Scout, who will speak in McCaskey High schoo] at Lan ct tll A AI 150-POUND PIG STOLEN | FROM MARIETTA R1 FARM Wilbur Bair, Marietta Rl, report- | ed to State Police the theft of a 150 { pound pig from his farm. He said it | was stolen Tuesday. and Menno Z. Shelly, Manheim R2 | administrators of the Linton D. My- ers estate, West Ear] Twp State Policeman Edward Hermes- { ky, of the Columbia sub-station, is investigating. a ion HAVE A STICKER East Petersburg boro has levied | J. Richard Nissley, of Landisville apprehended by Lancaster City police. Richard forgot to have & new inspection sticker put on hig car, Bartholomew Kaufhold, 88, at John R. Diffenbaugh, 76, at Eliz- Mrs. Annie Eby Bowers, 83, at the Oreville Mennonite Home, Lil= { lie Mae, wife of Harry Shenk, Mt. Joy R2, is a daughter and Rew. | Norman L. Bowers, of Landisville, Albert S. Eshenbaugh, 89, Eliza- ! bethtown, died Tuesday in the . | Lancaster County Hospital. He was Stephen Mohr, two-year-old boy, miraculously escaped being crushed pinned beneath his father’s 1950 model sedan following a collision He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hospital authorities said he suf- ered a concussion, lacerations, and of the face and lost sey {eral teeth, His father was treated at the same hospital for shock and an injured left leg. S. 1 eg The group also decided to send the next Bi-County council meet- caster March 8. Miss Maude Schn- eider, president, was in charge.