} BT ount P.P.&L. Again Offers Scholarships | Pennsylvania Power & Light | Company will again offer a ser- | ies of six scholarships to deserv- | ing young people within its ser- | vice area, Chas E. Oakes, PP&L president, announced today. In announcing continuation | of the scholarship program, Mr. | Oakes pointed out that it has a- | gain been designed to achieve a | twofold purpose—to provide educational opportunity for loc- | al young people and to give fi- | nancial assistance to Central | Eastern Pennsylvania’s indepen- | dent colleges and universities. The dual-purpose scholarship, Mr. Oakes said, is gaining im- mensely in popularity as more and more of the nation’s busi- nesses and industries come to realize that ‘‘the contributions education has made to every as- pect of our culture instill in each member of our society, whether individual or corporate, | a definite responsibility for its continuous development.” Pennsylvania Power & Light Company, Mr. Oakes added, was highly pleased with the re- sponse to its initial scholarship offering and attributed its popu- larity to three factors—first, competition was open to young men and young women; second, ' scholarship winners were given a choice of 16 colleges and uni- versities within the PP&L ser- | vice area; and third, scholarship recipients were free to pursue any course of study they desired | so long as it led to a baccalaur- | eate ‘degree. All three provisions are retained in this year’s pro- gram. Each scholarship will again provide $500 per year toward: the tuition of the scholarship winner, while an additional $500 will be paid to the college or university he or she attends] for use ‘‘toward realization of the institution’s educational ob- jectives.” At least one scholar- | | this week. He was ship will again be reserved for the son or daughter of an em- | ployee of PP&L or its subsidi- | aries The selection of the grantees for the new series of scholar- | ships is in the hands of an inde- pendent Scholarship Awards Committee composed of Mr. Ni- chol H. Memory, Director of Admissions, Stevens Institute of Tcchnology, Dr. Kenneth H. Condit, former dean of the en- gineering school at Princeton University and Dr. Charles C. Tillinghas, principal - emeritus, Horace Mann School. This is the second year of service for this same. committee. Seven area young people are currently studying at Central Eastern Pennsylvania institutios of higher learning under terms of last year's PP&L scholarship program. The number of 1954 a- wards, Mr. Qakes pointed out, was increased to seven last year (Turn to page 4) Pvt. A. E. Aungst Now In Ausiria Salzburg, Austria Pvt. Arte- mus E. Aungst, son of Mrs. Ma- bel Aungst, Mt. Joy R1, Pa., re- cently arrived for duty with U. S. Forces in Austria. Troops serving USFA are part of a four-power occupation force on duty in Austria since the end of World War II. They also operate the Leghorn, Italy, port of embarkation which handles all personnel and sup- plies coming to USFA. Aungst has been assigned to the 6th Ordnance Battalion's 437th Ordnance Ammunition Company as an ammunition rec- ords specialist in Salzburg. —— @ SCOUT LEADERS TO MEET IN LANCASTER Girl Scout and Brownie Lead-' ers of the Mount Joy-Florin Neighborhood are reminded of the special Lancaster County Leader’s Club meeting in Lan- caster at the First Presbyterian Church, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 9. Miss Katherine Davis will be the guest speaker. The interna- tional theme, “A friend to all” will be followed in the meeting and a workshop period will be held. | cal Veterans of | Brown. | clude reels ! other patrolmen | person cares to help defray Your Blessings- The Mount Joy NEWSPAPER FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, NO. 24 YOUR HOME Hometown Movie Will Be | Presented By A “Home Town Movie Pro- duction” will be held by the lo- Foreign Wars sometime in March of next year it was announced by the chair- man of the committee, Martin The movies will be shown in the grade school audi- torium. Citizens of the town are warned to be on the lookout for the “man with the camera”, Joseph Sheaffer, who will taking all the movies. Between now and March, he will be taking pictures through the borough and the entire Mt. Joy area. A special feature of the affair will be "Old Time Movies”. These movies will in- taken for similar shows eight and twenty years ago. The last show of this kind to be held in Mount Joy was held in 1948 when the V.F.W. also sponsored the show. - ——— WILBUR NISSLY TO WEAR GOLD BADGE Wilbur Nissly will wear the coveted gold badge of the local elementary school patrolmen chosen by in the sixth grade because he home since another student was throwing stones at the couple. tp t Cage Stars Form New Town Team A newly formed basketball team has been organized to rep- | resent Mount Joy in the Indus- trial League in Lancaster. The orgapization of the team began in the home of Stan Mur- phy, former East Donegal High player. Other players present were Robert Flick, former Lan- caster Industrial League star, Clarence Hean, former outstan- ding player at Manheim, Donald Geib, Earl Shuman, Harry Her- shey, Lester Wolgemuth, all for- mer members of East Donegal high school. These players sought George Houck, former Mt. Joy High basketball coach, as their coach. With coach Houck agreeing, the team also gained Hen Klugh, captain of last year’s Mt. Joy Eastern Regional Champions; Also Ben Clinger and Bill Zim- merman star players on the Section I Championship team of 1952-53. Another former Mount Joy Star signed during the past week, John Bowman, center of the great '50-'51 Eastern Reg- ional Championship team, was accepted as member. The team is wearing new sat- in Kelly green and white uni- forms with beautiful green Jac- kets with white letters on the back spelling Mt. Joy Merch- ants. To finance such an under- taking, each member of the team pays 10 dollars as his ob- ligation. The total cost for the uniforms, jackets, lettering, league entrance fee, balls, score- book, clock, referee fees, rental of floors is $355.40. Thus far 17 merchants have indicated that they are backing the team. Oth- | er merchants will be contacted during the coming week. If any the expense of the team please mail your contribution to Mr. George Houck, Florin, Pa. The amounts given will not be published but a record of all money received and spent will be kept. The team has been handicap- ped with the lack of practice facilities. Occasionally the team holds practice sessions in a barn on the property owned by Har- ry Hershey, near Donegal Air- port. Two practices were held in the Mt. Joy Elementary Gym | during the past two Saturdays. be | escorted a | small boy and his sister to their Local V.F.W. TAKE AIR TRIP TO FLORIDA Benjamin F. Garber and sis- ter-in-law, Miss S. Grace Hurst, have returned from Winter Park, Florida, where they visit- ed Miss Hurst's brother and family of Rochester, New York, who are spending the winter there. His son Dr. Ralph E. Hurst, I had just returned from Ja- pan where he had spent 2 years in the U. S. Army. The trip south was made by plane. — ® 4-H Play Is Saturday Night For the fourth year, the 4-H Clubs of Lancaster County will present a three-act play. The production “Old Doc” will be held this Saturday evening, No- vember 27, in the Manheim Township High School auditor- ium and will be directed by Miss Grace Nolt, Silver Spring. , Miss Nolt teaches in the Lititz High School. Miriam Roland, Mount Joy R1 will take the part of Marga- ret; Carol Ginder, Florin, will be Doris and Jeanette Brene- man, Mount Joy R2, will be | Janet. | Other members of the cast will be Arlene Stehman, Lan- caster R3; Helen Graybill, Man- | heim R3; Betty Umble, East | Lampeter; Marian araybill, | Manheim R3; Gwendolyn Bix- ller, Ephrata R3; Mardel Sho- walter, Reinholds RI; { Brubaker, Ephrata R1; Kenneth | Kreider, Quarryville R2; Junior Hershey, Quarryville R1; John Neff, Lancaster R7: John Her- shey, Quarryville R1; Robert Kreider, Quarryville R1. Tickets are now on sale and may be purchased from any member of the cast, from any 4-H County Council member or at the Bulletin office. Legion Reports At State Affair Finance officer, Jack Germer, and Oliver Spickler turned in 255 paid members for 1955 at the state membership round-up of the American Legion. The round up was held in the capitol Saturday, Nov. ‘20. The membership quota for the Walter S. Ebersole Post No. 185 for 1955 is 582 members. Anyone who is eligible to join the American Legion is invited to join the Walter S. Ebersole Post by ‘contacting the post home or any post officer for an application. James Shaeffer, district No. 10 commander, reported ap- proximately 30 percent of the district membership quota turn- ed in at the round-up. Mr. Shaeffer also that plans are being made for an eastern section Legion con- vention to be held in 1955. More details on this proposed conven- tion will be issued at a later date. reported DONEGAL STUDENTS TOUR ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE Thirty-six seniors of the Don- egal High School were taken on a tour of the Elizabethtown College recently. In connection | with the guidance department of the high school, the group toured the college under the di- rection of Mrs. Lewis Williams. Eby Espenshade spoke to the students and told them about the costs, scholarships possible and opportunities of the school. Following the tour, a tea was held in the ricreation rooms. | BULLETIN 1 his Thanksgiving Season- They ET gt aT A Tg A a DEDICATED MOUNT JOY, PA.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1954 Land For Athletic | Field Voted i Land to be used for facilities and athletic purposes was voted to be purchased at the regular meeting of the Don- egal Joint School Board Thurs- day night as recommended by schoolboard man Jay Musser. The land is now owned by Hen- ry Brubaker, Clarence Herr and Elam Brubaker. Wilbur Beahm, supervising principal, reported an enroll- ment of 850 students and an at- tendance of 96 percent but that a number of the 17-year-old students were not attending school regularly. The group de- cided that the matter should be discussed with the parents to determine if the children shall continue school or leave. Beahm asked for a request from the Donegal Chapter of the Youth for Christ group for a class room for monthly meetings and the request was granted. He also announced that the school had been given a PIAA class B rat- ing for athletic events. Students will be transported to and from both home and a- way basketball games the trans- portation committee announced. Paul Weien was selected to rep- parking resent the board at a surplus property sale at Harrisburg, Jan. 3. Rotary Club Observes Annual Clyde ! Capon Day Mount Joy Rotary Club Tues- day observed Capon Day, with members of the local Ca- pon club as guests. Rotarian Arthur Mayer in charge of the program. Pre- sentations were made by Paul noon was Hess. Carl Doscin, Pern State University extension depart ment, explained the method used in judging the birds. by the presented order of Awards were Mr. Hess in the standings as follows: Miller, Christ Pfaunmiller, Richard Sherk, Martin, Miller, Joanne Miriam Harold Jean Robert Bixler, Roland, John I Ginder. this birds, The eight club members year, starting with 409 completed the project with 2759 pounds of meat, valued at $927. ° — Hospital Auxiliary Makes Xmas Plans Christmas hospital plans were discussed at the regular meeting of the Mount Joy Branch of the Lancaster General Hospital Auxiliary last Thurs- day night at the home of Mrs. Frank Young, Sr. The group finished making the Christmas angels. These angels will be ta- ken to the hospital gift shop for sale by the local chairman of the ways and means committee, Mrs. Bruce Greiner. Five of the members, Mrs. Eric Olson, Mrs. Greiner, Mrs. James Fhillips, Mrs. James Rob- erts and Mrs. Frank Young, Jr., volunteered to go to the Lancas- ter General Hospital Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 13 and 14 to assist in the Christmas decora- tions in the rooms and halls. Dec. 9 has been set as the day the local group will make favors for the trays in the hospital for Christmas Day. All the mem- bers of the auxiliary are invited to help make these favors at the home of Mrs. Olson. Mrs. Rob- erts and Mrs. Olson volunteered to take charge of the merchan- dise push cart at the hospital on Wednesday, Dec. 1. Mrs. Samuel Balsbaugh was in charge of the refreshments for the evening and Mrs. Olson, president, was in charge of the meeting. The next meeting of the group will be held the last Thursday of | January. | sored by the United Harold E. Leed, C.N., States Navy Seabees, has just returned to Trinidad, B.W.I., af- ter spending a thirty day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Leed, Manheim R2. He will serve nine months to complete his two-years service in Trinidad. Donegal Dance Band To Play Friday Night TO COMMUNITY SERVICE $2.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE System Near Completion | base and | | | | | | | | | | | | ron Auto Company ' miles east of Marietta on Route As Water Enters Standpipe RURAL MAN HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT Horace H. Wagner, 69, Mount Joy R1, was injured in an auto- bus collision Saturday morning when a car in which he was driving collided with a Leban- bus three 340. Admitted to the Columbia Hospital with hip and shoulder | injuries, he was reported in sa- tisfactory condition. There was $1,000 damage involved with | the heaviest to Wagner's auto. Firemen Called Twice Sunday Mount Joy firemen responded to a fire call at 12:30 a. m. Sun- | day morning to West Main St., | where an automobile owned by | Clarence Justis, 620 Orange St., | Lancaster, was on fire. Since it was raining, Mr. Jus- tis was using the wipers on the windshield. The one came off its the inter-mechanism i fell to the inside of the car, caus- The Donegal Dance Band, un-| der the direction of Mr. Morrell Shields, will furnish music for the last of a series of dances to be given in the Marietta Ele- | mentary School yymnasium | from 7 to 10 on Friday evening, | | the locals again responded to a { Nov. 26. These dances have been spon- | Marietta Parent- association and are by parents from Teachers chaperoned this organization. The profit realized from the series of dances will the Donegal Band Club for their Uniform Fund State Commander Visits Mount Joy Joseph Kovack, state Veter- ans of Foreign Wars command- Mount Joy post with the visiting be visited the Sunday afternoon comment that he was the ‘biggest, smallest post in the state”. Although Mr. Kovack wasn't quite sure whether or not the local posthome was the smallest in the state, he knew it was one of the smallest! Mr. Kovack completed a 3- day tour Sunday of all the posts in the eastern part of Penna. He was escorted by six of his state and district officials. From Mt. Joy. the group went to the Eli- zabethtown post home. Frank Morton, local com- mander, welcomed him to Mt. Joy. The announcement was al- so made that percentage-wise, the Mount Joy post ranks sixth in receiving its 1955 member- ship dues; in its battalion which includes all the territory around Fhiladelphia. er, Shopping Tour Scheduled Dec. 18 On December 18 the Mt. Joy JayCees assisted by the JoyCees will take twenty residents of the Messiah Home on a Christ- mas shopping tour in the local stores. Each child will be armed with a gift list which they have made up themselves and a five dollar bill. After the shopping is pleted the JoyCees will be hand with everything necessary for wrapping their gifts. If anyone in the community wishes to help with this heart- warming project they may do so by sending contributions to the co-chairmen, Mr. Harold Zimmerman, Jr. and Mr. Paul Stoner, Jr., both on S. Barbara Street, or to Mrs. Thomas O- Connor, Main Street, of the JoyCees committee. com- on ing a short circuit. Although the local fire company was called, Park Neiss, police chief, arriv- ed first and was able to exting- uish the blaze with his fire ex- tinguisher. Sunday evening, 6:30 p. m., the telephone voice said Milton Grove School Although a thorough school, call; that the was afire. check was made on the | no fire could be found. The one given | engine checked the next school north of the village and there was no fire there. The engines returned to Mount Joy after a | half hour's search. FIREMEN EXTINGUISH DUMP BLAZE Sixty-five Attend chairman | will be Christmas. Firemen of the local company were called Monday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. to extinguish a blaze at the refuge dump east of Mount Joy. Although the dump burns quite often, it was report- ed that this time the fire was getting too close to several properties near the dumping grounds. Second Pack Meet Sixty-five attended the second pack meeting of he newly-or- ganized three dens of Cub Scouts Tuesday evening in the Mt. Joy grade school auditori- um. Ralph Rice, cub scout master, was in charge of the meeting and announced that 7 more boys passed their Bob Cat These boys are members and their tests. of the original three were given their pins by mothers. During the program, Den presented a skit concerning Thanksgiving. December plans were made for the group. The Cub Scouts will attend the Scout party Dec. 4 to be given by the local American Legion. December 18, the group will go caroling via a hayride. Fol- lowing the caroling, refresh- ments will be served at the Den 3 home on Columbia Avenue. The next pack meeting will be held Wednesday night, Dec. 22, and the theme of December Plans have been made to have Santa Claus present at this meeting. In January, another den will dens each | be started in the West Main St. area with Mrs. Michael Good as den mother and Miss Loretta Rider as assistant. Another re- quest from a boy seeking admis- | sion to Cub Scouting had to be refused because he lives in the East Main-North Barbara Street area. An urgent need for a Den Mother in that area is announc- ed. | new standpipe on sion Water was released into the Lumber St., at 2:00 p. m. Tuesday afternoon. It took a day to allow the water to run into the standpipe but only to the elevation of the present standpipe and reservoir. A back-geared valve was in- stalled into the new standpipe prior to the water being releas- ed. The next job for the Borough Authority will be to drain the standpipe which stands on Don- egal Springs Road. After it is drained, it will be checked as to its present condition. If it war- | rants being repaired, the auth- | ority will repair it and keep it to use during emergencies when repairs will be done on the new standpipe. After old the standpipe is "drained, work will be started to drain the present reservoir. Following this, the new stand- pipe will be completely filled. ' The only other operation to be done is to lay water pipe across the Lumber Street Railroad bridge to complete the new ser- ies of water pipes. The announcement is also made that if citizens find dis- coloration in the water supply it is the result of the work being done in several sections of the | borough on gas lines by the gas V.F.W.To Sel Freshly Cut Holiday Trees Freshly cut Christmas trees will be sold by the local V.F.W. Post 5752 for the holidays it was announced by the post at their regular meeting Monday night at the post home on East Main Street. Saturday, Dec. 4, a group of veterans headed bv Frank Morton, commander, will travel approximately one hund- red miles to the to cut the trees. They will cut all sizes and will cut four diffcre t kinds of trees for the customers to choose. These fresh trees will be sold at the home of Ralph Rice, Columbia Avenue A heated and lengthy discus- was held on the subiect of why there is no memorial for World War II veterans in Mount Joy and especially a memorial for the men who died in World War II. No decision was reach- ed. The announcement that Charles Mateer, Army vet- eran and member of the local V.F.W. since it was chartercd in 1946, was given an “Aid de camp card’ by the State Com- mander, Joseph E Kovach, when he visited the post Sun- day afternoon. He is pow an honorary member of the Depart- ment of Pennsylvania Veterans of Foreign Wars. This award is given for outstanding work for the veterans for many years The next regular meeting will be held Dec. 13 at 8 p. m. at post headquarters, East Main Street. mountains was made ® WINS HOMECOMING AWARD AT COLLEGE Miss Gladys Weaver, gradu- ate of East Donegal Township high school, recently won an a- ward for the best decorated room for Homecoming open house of the 35th year of Upland college, California. Miss Weav- er's name has been engraved on the Homecoming plaque which hangs in the college trophy case. PHYSICIAN ON CALL THANKSGIVING DAY AND SUNDAY Dr. Thomas O'Connor I a re Many School Home ‘Group Hear Mervin Brandt Mervin Brandt, assistant county school superintendent, , | was the guest speaker at the meeting of the local School and: | Home Association last Thursday evening. He told the group that of all the counties in Pennsyl- vania, Lancaster is on top with its school building program, | mergers and jointures. Approx- imately eighteen million dollars have been or will be spent on new schools here within, the next two years. He also told the members that there is only one township in Lancaster County where nothing has been done about the one-room school situ- ation. He stressed the need for ele- mentary teachers and quoted a New York columnist as saying there is a need for 63,000 addi- tional teachers. He also said that Lancaster County needs a means for educating the below- normal intelligent child. Group To Make Purchase Instead of giving each child a small token at Christmas time, the group decided to purchase a record player for the school. Since refreshments are served following each meeting, the members went on record to pur- chase ‘a coffee urn. Group Changes By-Laws By-laws were discussed last month and revised. During the business meeting, the new ver- sion of the laws were read to the group and were received with a general acceptance. The one outstanding change in the group of laws was changing the meet- ing night to the fourth Tuesday of the month instead of the third Thursday. The next meet- ing of the group will be held the fourth Tuesday of January. | Twenty-five dollars was vot- ed to the Christmas community | decoration committee. Mrs. Myrtle Nornhold and Mrs. Ruth Brandt were named co-chair- | man to work on a Sample Fair | to be sponsored by the group sometime in the spring. Mrs. John Wealand was nam- ed chairman of a Christmas cookie sale project. Mothers will be asked to bake some extra cookies in their homes at the same time that they bake their customary cookies and donate them to a cookie sale. The time will be announced later. Need For Den Mothers Mr. Bordeman, Lancaster, al- so spoke to the group and stres- sed the need for Den Mothers in Mount Joy. He discussed briefly the values of Cud Scout- ing and the need for more Den Mothers in Mount Joy, ly around East Main Sreet and North Barbara Street. Devotions of the evening were in charge of the Rev. E. M. Moy- er, pastor of the St. Luke's Ep- iscopal Church. The attendance warded to Mrs. grade since her room had the largest representation of par- ents present. Arthur Schneider president. was in charge of the | prize was a= Good's first meeting - — Florin Bank Manager Helps Catch Forger A York County resident is be- ing held for investigation by the Lancaster state police after he was caught in Elizabethtown following the opening of a bank account in the Florin branch of the Mount Joy First National Bank and Trust Company with a worthless check. According to Warren Bentzel, manager of the bank, the Delta R2, York County man, said that he wished to transfer his ac- count from the Barnett National Bank of Jacksonville, Florida and asked for a blank check to be made out in the amount of $628.00 and drawn on the Flori- da bank. Bentzel checked with a Florin family whom he said he knew and the members inform- ed him he had served jail sen- tences for forging checks. Bent- zel immediately called the Lan- caster State Police for help and also called the Florida bank on- lv to learn that there was no ac- count here for the man. | Patrolman Joseph Mumma | apprehended the man in Eliza- | bethtown at 4:30 p. m. and he | was jailed.
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