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FIFTY-THIRD YFAR, NO. 45
MOUNT
The Mount Joy
BULLETIN
JOY, PA. THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1951
DEDICATED
TO
COMMUNITY
SERVICE
$250 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
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Door-To-Door Mail Service
Will Begin On Park Avenue
Door-todoor mail service in
the area of Park Avenue, Fred-
erick Street and North High
Street will begin on or about
May 17 it was announced by
Elmer Zerphey,
ter.
Authority was granted several
days ago after considerable cor
respondence was carried on be-
tween the local post office and
the Post Office department,
leceptacles or door slots
must be installed before the ser-
vice can begin.
This area is the second new
area to receive door-to-door
service in the borough of Mount
Joy within the last year.
other area is the Cedar Lane de-
velopment,
Fire Company
Drops 35
Thirty-five
have been dropped {rom the
role of Mount Joy Friendship
Fire Company, No. 1 as of May
6, 1954. Five members
were also announced dropped as
of the May meeting.
The
cept the invitation to parade in
Columbia June 6 for the Lan
caster County Firemen’s Asso
ciation convention. The
auxiliary will also be asked to
parade with the company. The|
group decided to go along with
the borough to the fire
phone to receive police’ calls
and fire calls.
active members
social
company aecided to ac
ladies
use
Plans were made to purchase
a section of hard suction
for the Dodge truck. Permis-
sion was also granted to the V.
FF. W. to use the firehouse Fri
day, June 18 for a smoker.
New
the meeting were Richard Hoo
ver, Charles Zeller, Brady Hess,
Sr., Christ Keller, Gilbert Corn-
well, Sylvester Swords, Joseph
Arbutina, William Zimmerman,
Samuel Waltz, Ray Byle, and
Jay Young.
hose
members accepted at
The Lancaster County Fire
man Association meeting will
be held July 30 in the local fire-
If there is anyone inter-
ested in parading in Columbia,
he is to get in touch with Char-
les Pennell.
house
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4-H CLUB MEETS
The E-town-Donegal 4-H
Community club held its mon-
thly meeting, May 11 in the
Washington School, Florin. C.
E. Craver showed two films;
one on swine and the other on
cleanliness. The next meeting
will be held Friday, June 11 at
the Washington School, 8 p.m.
acting postmas- |
| appointed at the regular
| Titus
The
Auxiliary Names
Nominating Group
A nominating committee was
Tues-
day night at the post home. Miss
Maude Schneider, Mrs. James
Young and Mrs, Howard Brown
were appointed to the commit-
tee.
The group made final plans
for a food sale to be held at the
Rutt Office Saturday at
9:30 a.m. One thousand poppies
were received and given out to
the girls. It was decided to send
Irvin Fritz a bouquet of flowers
since he is ill in the Lancaster
General Hospital.
The group also decided to
send a girl to Keystone Camp a-
gain this year. Since there are
auxiliary members from both
Mount Joy and Landisville, the
group decided to send a girl
| from the Hempfield High school
1 this year.
| Mrs. Simeon Horton,
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THE UNION NATIONAL
DECLARES DIVIDEND
The Board of Directors of the
Union National Mount Joy
Bank have declared a semi-an
nual dividend of five per cent
($2.50 per share) payable May
15, 1954.
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Mrs. Schock Honored;
Mrs. Brown To Speak
Mrs. Clarence Schock,
der and first president of the
Mount Joy Needlework * Guild,
honored in a tribute by
at the bi-
Central
was
meeting of the
District Needle-
work Guild of America, Inc,
held in the St. Mark's E, U. B.
Mount Joy.
Mrs. Robert Brown, secretary
of the Mount Joy group, will
appear on a radio program on
Monday evening, 7:30 p. m. on
Lancaster's WLAN to explain
the work of the Needlework
Guilds
annial
Pennsylvania
church,
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Fire Company
Answers Call
The Mount Joy Friendship
Fire Company answered a call
at 8:00 a. m. Thursday morning,
May 13 at the farm of Aram
Musser, west of Mount Joy on
the highway to Rheems. Mr.
Musser said that he had started
to burn some undesirable wood
at 6:00 a, m. but a wind devel-
oped and the fire spread to good
wood. Fearing the wind might
carry it to the barn nearby he
summoned the fire company to
extinguish the 12 foot high
blaze.
Can You Recognize These People?
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| WATER AUTHORITY
AWARDS BOND ISSUE
$275,000 bond issue to finance
expansion of the borough water
system has been aworded by
the Mount Joy Water Authority.
The issue was awarded to
Reynolds and Co., Lancaster,
and C. C. Collings, Philadelphia.
The term bonds will bear 3
percent and the serial bonds 1.6
to three per cent,
Seiler Is Named
To County Board
Albert D. Seiler, president of
the Mount Joy Borough School
Board, has been named a direc-
tor of the Counly School Board
to replace G. Read Alexander,
Elizabethtown, who resigned
because he is no longer a school
director in his district. His el-
ection was confirmed by the
county board at a meeting Tues-
day in the office of Dr A. P.
Mylin, county superintendent.
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MEETING SCHEDULED
A re-organizational meeting
of the Mount Community
Christmas Lighting Committee
Joy
will be held Wednesday evening |
June ¥ in
Horton at the Mount Joy Farm-
ers Co-Operative building. This
will be the third year the
community lights.
A een
Dussinger ToHead
Town Camera Club
for
GARRATS AAR
MARSHALL DUSSINGER
Marshall Dussinger will
in charge of the Mount
Camera Club which will hold a
be
Joy
meeting Wednesday evening,
May 19 in the local fire hall.
The camera club was organized
by the JayCees and Mr. Dussin-
ger, a member of the sponsoring
organization, was named chair-
man of the project. Meetings
will be held the third Wednes-
day of each month at 8:00 p.m,
Special films will be shown at
the May, June and July meet-
ings. There is no age limit; the
only requirement for becoming
a member is that the person be
interested in photography.
the office of Simeon |
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PATRICIA SCHROLL
Children’s Pic
Published In
day
of
Saturday is the big
the
youngsters!
picture taking your
taken
| of all children who are brought
letin is having pictures
by their parents or other guard-
ian to the Mount Joy Fire Hall
and 6:00 p.m,
absolutely free of charge. The
Woltz DesMoines,
a nationally known portrait stu-
between 10 a. m.
Studios of
of the
Bulletin
charge
The
dio, will be in
photography.
§ wants a picture of your child to
| print in its forthcoming feature,
| “Citizens of Tomorrow’, a ser-
lies of photographic studies
| local children. The more we get
| the better the
| so the cooperation of the moth-
ers and fathers is urged.
It often seems to parents that
present stage for the pleasure
will get out of it in future
pleasure you
you
years and for the
will enjoy in seeing it in print,
You will want {o clip it {rom
this, your home town newspa-
per, and preserve it for the
youngster when he or she grows
up.
There is absolutely no charge
or obligation for taking the pic-|
tures. Parents don't even have
to be a subscriber to the Bul-
letin nor even a reader. You do
not have to purchase pictures
either, though may
additional prints by arranging
direct with the Studio represen-
tative if you want them. This is
entirely up to you!
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Florin Lions Hear
Levi Hershey Speak
The regular meeting of the
Florin Lions Club was held at
[the Clearview Diner 6:45 Mon-
day evening May 10. Guest
speaker was Mrs, Levi Hershey,
Elizabe.htown, grocer. His topic
| was about the rackets
Jury on which he served in
| Philadelphia from 1950 to 1953.
| This was only the 6th Justice
| Department Racket Grand Jury
in existance in the United
| States. Mr. Hershey mentioned
| various cases having to do with
| narcotics, liquor, white slavery
[and income tax evasion. He|
| stressed the importance of the
individual responsibility for
justice by wvalueing
our citizenship. He further em-
| phasized that as good citizens
we should be willing to sacrifice
| time and effort, and use good
| judgment to protect our home|
| and heritage and that’it is the]
| duty of all citizens to serve |
jury duty.
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promoting
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| SPEED TRAP CATCHES 25 |
| In the second speed trap of |
| the week on route 230 in Eliza- |
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This picture includes the students of the Florin Grammer School taken several years ago. These | al Tuesds night, Wil-|
students plus all the o.her students, teachers and their families of the Florin Grammer School are bethtown Tuesday ght, {
invited to attend the first annual reunion.to be held Saturday, May 22 at the school. .
A program will be held at 1:00 p. m. The com mittee suggests that the afternoon and evening
may be spent with school mates and friends. The reunion is to be held rain or shine and the school
pbuilding will be open at 1:00 p. m.
| bur Raffensperger, Rheems and |
Robert Randler, 146 N. High
St., Mount Joy were prosecuted. | g
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The Mt. Joy Bul-|
of |
feature will be, |
children are little one minute
woes a child's growing stage
and grown up the next, so fast
pass. Here is a splendid oppor-
tunity to catch a likeness of |
your child or children at the]
obtain |
Grand |
| Patricia Schroll
Crowned Queen
Patricia Schroll was crowned
| Queen of the May at the annual
May Hop Friday night in the
high school. She was crowned
| by her escort, Irvin Nauman.
| The freshmen attendants, Bet-
| ty Raffensberger and William
| Marshall, gave her the key to
| the town; the sophomore atten-
| dants, Lois Good and Larry
| Geib, gave her the world; and
| the junior attendants, Karleen
| Raffensberger and Peter Nissley
| gave her the septer.
The senior attendants were
| Patricia Frantz and Charles
| Zeller; eighth grade, Sandra
| Schroll and Joseph Hostetter;
| seventh, Marilyn Johnson, and
| Richard Marshall,
tures To Be
The Bulletin
LIONS TO APPEAR ON TV
The Lions Club of Mount Joy
will
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present a program on
WNOW-TV, York Thursday ev- |
10:00 for the spring smoker to be held |
|
to
| ening, May 27, 9:30
| p. m,
“Mount Joy Lions Club Is
Calling” is the theme of the pro-
gram to be held over Channel
49. H. Morrell Shields will have
| charge of the music and Mau-
| rice Bailey will have charge of
| the interviews.
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JayceesName
Five Judges
| Five judges for the Junior
Chamber of Commerce Teen-
Age Road-e-o to be held at the
Sico garages on Saturday, May
15, were named Tuesday by O.
K. Snyder, Jr., Co-Chairman of
the Road-e-o committee.
The judges are: John G. Hart,!
supervising principal of E. Don
high school; Park
of David
instruc-
high
egal Twp.
Neiss, chief
Risser, driver training
tor at E. Hempfield Twp,
school, Elmer R. Zerphey, foim-
er chief of police and a Penna.
State Policeman.
police,
The contest will consist of a
written examination and a skill
test. The skill test will include
an exercise for driving between
pairs of rubber balls; serpentine
exercises: smooth stopping and
parallel parking exercises.
Burion S. Shupp,
man of the Road-e-o committee
gave a talk to the students of
| Mount Joy High School explain
ing the contest. He also stated
that a first prize, a $2500 war
bond, will be donated by Rob
| ert Kunkle. Mr. Shupp said that
| the Mount Joy JayCees will al-
<0 send the local winner to the
| state contest on July 10 in Cora-
opolis, Pa. and one teen-age
will represent Pennsylvania in
the national contest where con-
testants bid for $3,100 in schol-
arships.
co-chair-
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YMCA TO HOLD CAMPAIGN
Plans for a YMCA Centennial
| Fund Campaign to secure $250.-
000 during the month of June
were announced today by Di-
rectors of the Association. De-
tails of the appeal for both bud- |
get and capital funds follows
the announcement of plans for a
drive made in February had
be
been postponed and will
incorporated in next month's
efforts.
The four parts of the drive
are renovation and refurnishing
of the Y building in Lancaster; |
complete Camp Shand; wipe
out the long-standing indebted-
ness of the Y building; and meet
the 1954 budget.
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NURSES NEEDED |
All nurses in Mount Joy |
who are interested in accept-
ing ambulance calls on an
emergency set-up are asked |
to get in contact with Mrs. |
Joseph Germer, Delta Street,
Mount Joy.
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RONALD PENNELL
Ronald Pennell, Mr.
| and Mrs. James Pennell, West
| Main ‘Street, is the 1954 marble
| champion of Mount Joy.
Ronald, a sixth grader, defeated
William Sheafler, a second
grader, in the finals. Lee New-
comer remained in third place.
| The local V.F.W
sored the tournament
morning, May 8. Elimination
son of
post spon-
Saturday |
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WILLIAM SHEAFFER LEE NEWCOMER
contests were held to get a] Saturday, May 15 in Phoenix-
grade winner for each grade ville at which time the V.F.W,
| from first to eighth. Gray Grein
| er was the winner in the first
| grade; William Sheaffer, sec
ond; James Schatz, third; Ken
| neth Peifer, fourth; Karl Haines
[ fifth; Ronald Pennell,
| Earl Shearer, seventh and
Newcomer, eighth.
District playoffs will be
take Ronald to repre-
William will
escort the group also help
serve as coach for Ronald, First,
post will
sent Mount Joy
to
sistth: i second and third place winners
sixth; |
Lee |
the
grade will
will receive medals and
winners from each
held | also receive prizes.
V.F.W.Completes| Jaycees-Joycees To Again
Ball Game Plans
| Plans were completed for a
| donkey baseball game to be
"held at the borough park Friday
| night, May 28 between the Vet-
| erans of Foreign Wars and the
| Junior Chamber of Commerce
at the VFW meeting Monday
evening.
The date of June 18 was set
in the basement of the firehouse.
| Ralph Rice, who is chairman of
| the poppy sale, announced that
| he will need helpers for the sale
| which is scheduled to begin on
{ Friday, May 28.
Players are needed for the V.
F. W. baseball team for this
summer. The ball team has en-
tered an inter-county league
and competition is expected to
start in the near future,
Plans were also completed to |
escort Ronald Pennell, marble
chagpion, to Phoenixville, Sa!-
urday, for the district playoffs. |
The group also decided to check |
the possibility of purchasing]
T-shirts with “Mount Joy Mar- |
ble Champs” for the eight]
grade winners. Thirteen officers
were present at the meeting.
Frank Morton, commander, was
in charge.
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Rheems Fire Company
To Make Fund Drive
A concerted drive to raise
$6,000 for the Rheems Fire Co.
will be started Monday night, it
was announced following a final
meeting of members of the fund
raising committee held Wednes
day night
funds
expenses
for
equip-
decided at a regular
The decision to
for current operating
and for a sinking fund
placement
ment was
raise
re-
of obsolete
meeting of the fire company. At
that time it was pointed out
that the sale of the Carnival
Grounds to the joint school
board of Mount Joy and West
Donegal Townships and Eliza-
bethtown, left the company
without a method of raising!
funds
the work of the
fire company, it was decided to
solicit funds from
the nearly 600 families living in|
the district
the company.
Of the sum required
would be for current
expenses and the balance of $3,-
500 would be aside in a
sinking fund for the replace-
ment of equipment.
To carry on
each year
normally served by
$2,500
operating
set
A census of the district
prepared and letters have been
sent to all householders. The
collectors will start their can-
was
vass on Monday night. Membe:s
of the committee pointed out
that a sum of $10 from each
householder would be sufficient
to meet the goal, The money
can be pledged in four equal a-
mounts during the year.
The Rheems Fire Company
was established in 1920 and this
first public appeal for|
funds. Previously money for op-
erating had been derived from!
carnivals.
Members of the Fund Raising |
Committee include; Jap Heisey, |
chairman; John Leaman, Geo.
Carriger, Herbert Hoover, Clif-
ford Shank, Albert Zeager, H.
H. Mason, Dave Forrey, Martin
° IN. Heisey and Ralph C. Bable, ! § meee
| gles
{ High School; Lucy
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Through the courtesy of
the Kirk Johnson Music Sto.e,
Lancaster, a mahogany spinet
piano will be lent to the Jay
| Cees and JoyCees for the use
| at the dawn party. The piano
which is priced at $775.00,
may be sold while it is in Mt.
Joy. If it is sold, the JayCees
will receive $50.00 from the
| company to defray the dawn
party expenses.
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Beaston Is
Tennis Champ
Jack the
singles championship in the In-
Jeaston captured
Scholastic Tennis
at the Eliz-
courts Sat-
ter-County
League tournament
abethtown College
urday. He defeated Dan Spang
ler, Hershey, in the first round;
Dan Bare
ship in the semi-finals and How-
ie Good, Lititz in the finals.
of Manheim Town-
Lester Snavely and Jay Metz
ler were the runner-ups in the
doubles division after losing to
| Morris Frederick and Ron Runk.
| Individual
trophies were pre-
sented to the winner run
ner-up in the singles and doub
and
les
This Saturday, the PIAA sin-
tournament
and doubles
will be held in Lancaster. Mt.
Joy netmen are expected to
take part
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SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED
~ Among the winners of the 33
for Millers-
ville State Teachers College are
the following local high
students Darlene Schneider,
220 East Donegal Street, Mount
Joy, a the
scholar
scholarships given
school
recipient of of
alumni $100
Evelyn Blake, Hempfield
Ann Gibble,
Manheim Central High School;
both will receive the SICO $300
Af
will
one
school’s
ships:
freshman year scholarships
ter the first the
have the privilege to earn $300
each working for the
SICO Company during the sum
mer months.
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year, two
vear
Rotarians Hear
Junior Soloists
David Weidman and Kenneth
Good were guest soloists at the
regular Rotary meeting Tues
day at Hostetter’s. David, a
member of the junior class
sang the two tenor solos that
placed him fourth in the State
Music Forensic League in Wil
liamsport recenily. Kenneth, al-
$0 a junior, sang two baritone
He tied for
place in the South Eastern Dis
trict competition. Both boys
were accompanied by Karleen
Raffensperger, They were intro-
selections second
| duced to the Rotarians by Geo.
Houck, music director.
Physician on Call Sunday
For emergency If you Cannot
Reach Your Own Physician
Dr. David E. Schlosser
‘Sponsor Local Dawn Party
ad
| year's
| the local firehouse will
| to
| year in the firehouse
| be held from 12:00 midnight to
| be
Based on the results of last
successful dawn party
for the juniors and seniors of
the Mount Joy High School, the
JayCees and JoyCees have com-
pleted plans for their second an-
nual dawn party to be staged
following the prom Friday nite,
May 21.
Last year's Top Hat Club at
change
“Carnival Room’ this
and will
the
3:00 a. m. Invitations have been
issued to the 69 students for the
affair and letters asking permis-
sion have been issued to all the
involved parents.
Contrary to last year’s ‘“‘clos-
ed” party, this year the students
may bring one guest per student
if they desire but these gues's,
too, must have parentpermis-
sion
The Bob White Quinte!te will
play for dancing in the night
club and a floor show will be
held midway through the affair,
Breakfast will be served by the
from the firehouse
2:30 a. m.
organization
kitchen at
Mrs. Gene Eicherly is general
chairman of the affair and is
Mrs. Frank Young
as chairman of decorations; Jac-
ob Corll, program; Michael Pri-
Gene Eicherly, drinks;
Mrs. Gerald Hostetter,
Warren Hayman, per-
sonel; Paul Stoner, publicity;
Mrs. Michael Pricio and O. K,
Snyder, assistants.
assisted by
cio and
Mr
kitchen;
and
Last vear, the group charged
50c¢ admission per student and
the amount
Beverages are free.
The public is invited to inspect
the rooms Friday night prior to
the midnight afTair.
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Local Man To Attend
Holstein Convention
Among the 17 men who will
the breeders, of Hol-
stein cattle throughout Penn-
at the 69h Annual
Convention the group in
Michigan, May
31 3 is Harvey Rettew,
Manheim R4
Pennsylvania's delegates will
vo e on matters of policy, elect
and carry on other
the 45,000 member
the world's largest
breeders’ registry
decided on same
this year
represent
sylvania
of
Grand Rapids,
to June
0 cers
business of
association,
dairy cattle
organization.
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MR HART TO SPEAK
Due to the observance of Na-
tional Family Week May 2 to 9,
Trinity Evangelical Congrega-
tional church has deferred the
Mother's Day service to Sunday
morning, May 16, 10:20 a, m.
Following the Sunday School
session, John Hart, principal of
the East Donegal Township
High School, will deliver the
message on the theme, “A Gieat
Woman’, and the junior choir
will sing. The Mothers Day of-
fering will be contribution to
the E. C. Church Homes for the
aged at Herndon and Myers-
town, Penna.
STORE TO CLOSE
The Mount Joy Furniture
Hospital, West Main Street, will
closed next Thursday, all
day since it is Ascention Thurs-
day,