Sw & ¥ a 3 TE 5 EX NE EN NEN PEPE i a > | The Mount Joy YOUR HOME NEWSPAPER FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, NO. 27 Donegal High BULLETIN MOUNT JOY. PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16. 1954 Christmas Festival This Weekend | The first annual Christmas Festival to be presented by | Donegal High School will be | held Friday and Saturday eve- | nings, Dec. 17 and 18, at 7:30 p. | m., in the High School Audi- | torium. A silver offering will be | collected. | Two hundred and forty stu- | dents will lift their voices in song in this impressive program. A uniformity of dress will be worn by the participants as the girls will be wearing dark skirts and white blouses while the | boys are wearing dark trousers | and white shirts with black bow | ties. | Volunteers from the Boys | Chorus took their axes and | were off to the woods last Sat- | urday:™ After getting nine trees, | the boys began their journey homeward, only to find the first | truck stuck in the mud. These | lads, namely, Scott Carpenter, | Dave Weidman, Henry Greiner, | Edwin Rutherford, Marlin Mil- | ler, Charles Byers, Richard Sch- neider, Peter Nissley, Jim Sta- ley and, Ken Kauffman, put] their shoulders to the wheel and | soon they were on their merry | way. { The boys under the guidance | of Mr. Peters, Mr. Depoe and | Mr. Rovenolt will work with | the trees in getting them ready | for the program. The School orchestra under | the direction of Mr. H. Morrell | Shields, will open the program with a “Christmas Tide Over- ture.” The Chrismas Story from St. Luke will be read on Friday by Mr. George Broske and Sat- urday evening by Mr. Edward | Richter. Both men are members | of the faculty. During the read- ing, the Senior Mixed Chorus will sing Silent Night. A portion of this selection will be sung by | a boys quartette consisting of | Dave Weidman, Marlin Miller, | George Franke, and John Heis- | tand. The mixed chorus, with | 156 voices, continue with the | following selections: O Holy | Night, with a solo by Ken Good, and Now the Holy Child Is Born, The Birthday of a King, is a solo by Mr. Good. Next, the Boy's Chorus of 44 members, blend their voices in two selec- tions. “How Still and Tiny, and Angels O’er the Field. The quar- | tett will sing Deck The Halls, between the Boys Chorus num- bers. Following these selections, the Girls Chorus of 75 voices will render three selections: Christmas Candles, Jingle Bells, and The Lord's Prayer. The lat- ter number being very impres- sive with four-part harmony. | This last group will end the first part of the program. Dur- | ing the offertory John Heisey | will play an organ selection, | Cavatina. Ronald Hawthorne will open | the second part of the program | by singing Count Your Bles- | sings. A Select Junior Choir of 80 voices, will sing Pat-A-Pan, | and The Christmas Star, inter- | mixed with a solo The of | Peace, by Joyce Dunkleberger, | a nember of the 7th grade. Da- | vid Weidman will follow with a solo This is the Story of Jesus, | The Senior High Select Choir of 75 voices will sing A Joyous Christmas Song, Carol of the Bells, Bethlehem, and Winter Wonderland. As one of the clos- ing numbers, the Mixed Chorus will sing Gloria In Excelsis. With the Junior and Senior high | choirs combining their voices in a beautiful A Cappella selec- tion, Like As A Father, the program comes to an end. Miss Edith Bifioche will ac- company Mr. Good, Miss Bar- bara Thome, Mr. Hawthorne and Miss Barbara Martin, Mr. Weidman. Mr. Stanley Dotterer, | a member of the faculty will accompany the Chorus groups. | This program is being directed by Mr. George Houck, vocal su- pervisor. MIXED CHORUS Members of the Mixed Chor. us are. First opranos, Eunice |and a special dividend of one Hess, Elaine Showalter, Joanne percent for the six months per- found and confiscated a pack of | iod ending Dec. 31. (Turn to page 4) | was | William Mateer Again Heads Florin Fire Co. William Mateer of Florin, was re-elected president of the Flor- in Fire Co. and Benjamin Staley re-elected vice president. Other officers chosen were Syl- | vester Swords, fire chief; Brady Hess, assistant; Max RafTensber- ger, secretary; Omar Groff, trea- | secretary; surer and financial and Rodney Ney, asst. financial secretary. Donald Emenheiser was nam- ed chief engineer; James Mad- ara, hose director; Walter Ma- teer, chief of Police; the Rev. John Gable, chaplain, and Earl Stettler, chief chemical engin- eer. Richard Martin was elected a trustee for three years; Brady Hess and Benjamin Staley were chosen delegates to the Lancas- ter County Firemen's Associa- tion, and Earl Stettler, John Wagner, Rodney and Gerald Ney and Isaac Wagner were named to the house committee. Three new members were ac- cepted: Charles K. Gephart, Richard Sheetz and James Ger- | ber Jr. Hess reported the company answered 2 calls during Novem- ber. Benjamin Staley was in charge of the meeting which was attended by 17 members. @® - Camera Club Has First Model Night The regular monthly meeting of the Mount Joy Camera Club was held last night at the Fire House. The Camera Club held its first and very successful “Modcl Night”. Everyone enjoy- ed photographing our lovely model, Miss JoAnné Brown. Ev- en Miss Brown thought it was fun as she posed beneath the burning flood lights and blind- ing flash bulbs. Approximately were taken by the 15 ‘Photo- graphers” present. The next, meeting the photographs of our first ‘Model Night” will be shown. Plans will also be made for the coming year which will in- cude many more features of this type. The Mount Joy Cam- era Club wishes to extend an in- vitation to anyone interested in taking pictures to attend this and every meeting. 175 pictures HEARING ON TRAFFIC CHARGE AGAINST BURGESS SET FOR MONDAY Hearing on a charge that B. Titus Rutt, Mount Joy burgess, made an illegal pass on the Har- risburg Pike has been set for Monday, 7 p. m., by Justice of the Peace Clayton Miller. In a statement to The Bulletin last week, Burgess Rutt said: I was called for a hearing on an alleged “bad pass” in Florin. 1 acknowledge no such offense. The hearing could not be held because of the arrest of the pre- siding Justice of Peace. No order was given to Mount Joy officers to “knock off” resi- dents of Florin, as rumored. None will be given, either. Fu- ture action on the case is uncer- tain. I claim only the rights and courtesies of any citizen. | B. TITUS RUTT rs (fl) ee FIRST NATIONAL BANK DECLARES DIVIDEND First National Bank & Trust | presented by Shopping Tour Is Cancelled Shopping tour for dren at the Messiah Home has been cause of the outbreak of mumps | Children’s cancelled be- | at the home. Mount Joy JayCees, Sponsors | of the project announced today that each child will be given $5 as planned for shopping when | the mumps permit. ® —-— Miller Resigns; Says He Is Innocent Resignation of Donald Miller, Florin, as justice of the in East Donegal township was | revealed written statement to the Lancaster In- telligencer Journal. Miller's | statement follows: “On Friday, Dec. 3, 1954 1 was arrested and charged with peace today in a an offense of which I am in-| nocent, Neither at this time nor at any time did I know who made this charge. In view of my | recent arrest. I have felt that it was my duty that I should not continue as Justice of the Peace of East Donegal Township and | have therefore sent in my resig- nation effective Dec. 8, 1954. Further I was arrested and held five days in custody without be- ing given an opportunity to se- cure bail or council (sic), and was refused use of a telephone. I also had on my person $139.00 for which I could have used to secure a bail bond. “Futhermore due to the recent case before my court involving B. T. Rutt, Burgess of Mt. Joy, | Pa., on an improper passing charge brought by Policeman! Sylvester R. Swords, in which | there was to be a hearing on Friday evening, Dec. 3, 1954, at my office, in which case I was] unable to attend, due to the fact I was arrested three hours be- fore the hearing was due. I was unable to hold that hearing, and it was then transferred to Squire Miller at Marietta, Pa., for fur- ther action. “The reason I am writing this letter. 1 feel that the people of East Donegal Township should know the truth pertaining to my arrest.” Donald Miller Justice of the Peace Florin, Penna. a ® 1,346 ADMITTED TO LANCASTER HOSPITAL 1,346 persons were admitted to the Lancaster General Hos- pital during November, it was announced by Dr. D. C. Smelz- er, Executive Director of the Hospital, at a meeting of the Board of Directors on Monday, Dec. 13, 1954. The admitted persons requir- ed 11,288 days of hospital ser- vice. Other census figures inclu- ded: Patients discharged the month, 1,339. Number of operations, 576. Number of births, 277. 783 patients were treated during in | the Receiving Ward. 511 patients were treated in the Dispensary with 669 visits. The average number of pa- tients per day was 376. ————— ® — - FLORIN LIONS SEE FILM The Florin Lions Club held their regular meeting Monday night in the Clearview Diner. The program, in charge of Clarence Hollinger, was a mov- lie of the Memorial Day Race at The picture was Mr. John Miller, territory salesman for Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., along with Indianapolis. | Mr. H. D. Hershey, of the Herr- Thompson Oil Co. | Company at its board of direc- GOLD BADGE WINNER | ors meeting Tuesday declared a Ronald Arndt will wear the Coach Depoe Speaks Before Rotary Club Ken Depoe, basketball coach at Donegal high chool, Tuesday noon gave Rotary club members a report on progress of this year’s team. Coach Depoe, while noncom- mital on just how far the team will go, predicted that the In- dians will give a good account of themselves against any teams they play. The speaker pointed up poise, confidence, sportsmanship and team play as the four most im- tant attrilutes which sports aid in building for boys. Depoe emphasized that, while the winning of games is impor- tant in the eyes of coach, play- ers and fans, it is far more ime portant that a boy come out of the game knowing that he has given his best. He said that no team need leave the floor with heads hanging low if it has giv- en its best. Coach Depoe expressed grati- fication at the manner in which the boys are working together and predicted continual im- provement as the season pro- gresses. He said that he appre- ciates the fine support being given the team by its many fol- lowers from Mt. Joy, Marietta and East Donegal. ® — Speed, Alcohol To Head List Of Accident Causes High speed and alcohol, per-' ennial killers of American mo- torists and pedestrians, once a- gain will head the list of causes of highway fatalities during this Christmas weekend, when at least 205 persons will die in crashes caused by those two fac- tors alone. According to a prediction re- leased today by the Association of Casualty and Surety Com- panies, the probable death toll from accidents involving high speed or speed too fast for con- ditions will amount to 124 vic~ tims. Alcohol, taken too freely by both drivers and pedestrians, is expected to account for an- other 81 victims. Before the end of the week- end, which starts officially at 6 P. M. Dec. 23 and closes at Mid- night Dec. 26, there also will be 37 deaths in accidents caused by failure to keep to the right of a centerline, 26 more for failure to yield the right of way and another 23 in crashes caused by overfatigued drivers or drivers actually asleep at the wheel. the prediction, Thomas N.*Boate, manager of the Association’s accident pre- vention department, pointed to overzealous holiday celebrants as principal offenders in the ac- cident picture. “This year, as every year,” Mr. Boate said, ‘the party-goer who just doesn’t know when to quit will substitute grief for Christmas = joy when he Kills himself, or someone else, on the way home from an overindul- In releasing gent celebration. Any driver who drinks, even though he may not be obviously drunk, is a potential killer on the high-| way. It would be well for hosts and guests alike to remember that, when planning a party during this Christmas season.” ee tof eres ART CLUB HAS PARTY The Mount Joy Art Club held | a Christmas party at the home| of the president, Mrs. Anna Eb- | ersole. { The members exchanged gifts | after which they were served | refreshments by Mrs. Ebersole. | | Present were Kathryn Heaps, | ‘Anna Ebersole, Phoebe Krall, | regular dividend of 2% percent honored gold badge of the school | Susan Phillips, Sally Roberts, | | i safety patrol for the week. He cigarettes. | Marion Mariner, Jennie Habec- | ker, Vera Newcomer, Dorothy’ | Hoffman, and Eva Hostetter. "Bell Telephone Co. of { 10,000, and four to 110,000. First prize in each pop=- ulation class will be $1,500, sce- | fourth prize $250. | based on the 1950 DEDICATED | TO | COMMUNITY SERVICE $2.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE | - | State Chamber of Commerce sw ai. Com. Development Contest Program Well Official rules and entry blanks $10,000 Pennsylvania con- for the community development test to be conducted during 1955 were mailed by the Pennsylvania State Chamber of Commerce to local chambers and business groups in nearly 500 communities, this week Mrs. George Mount Joy Merchants Give $1000 In Prizes Grade School Attended A near-capacity crowd of par- ents and friends was .on hand Tuesday evening for the presen- tation of the annual elementary school Christmas musical. The program, directed Broske, by assisted by members of the school facul- The rules, set forth in an §- page printed brochure, were made as simple as possible, the State Chamber reported, so that cities and communities of all size in the state would be en- couraged to compete for the cash awards. | “The principal requirements,” said a cover letter issued by the State Chamber, “is for each community to determine what it will try to accomplish during calendar year 1955 and to sub- mit a scrapbook after the con-| clusion of the contest to show its’ accomplishments.” ty, was presented in two parts. Featured were the recently-or- ganized school band, the kinder- garten rhythm band, third grade flutephone band, and choral groups from all grades. Terry Stark and George Roth! Broske, piano solo; Carole West, specialty number; Betty Gantz, vocal solo; Pamela Toppin, Don- na Corll, and Frances Gerberich vocal trio; Cheryll Brown and Deanne Walker, piano numbers. Lora Lee Foley, cello solo; John, Gates, Thomas Meckley | James Heisey, vocal trio; Carol | well. Thank you cards V.FW. To Give Flag To Cubs Mount Joy Veterans of For- eign Wars at their meeting Mon- day night voted to purchase a flag for the Cub Scouts. Dedica- tion will take place in January. Ralph Rice, chairman of the Christmas tree committee, re- ported that the trees are selling will be sent to Mr. Herr for the use of his truck and to Charles Becker for helping the trees. The post voted to send cigar- ettes to Sfe. Harold Eby at Val- ley Forge hospital, Clifford Co- | verts at Lebanon Valley hospit- al. and Police Chief Parke Neiss It was voted to present Rob- | ert Childs, recently discharged played a trumpet duet; George from the service, with a free 1- year membership card. — ® Christmas Party For Victims Of Polio Dec. 28 The 20th Annual Christmas Sponsors of the contest, first Buchenauer and Judy Nissley, | Party for the Polio victims of of its kind in Pennsylvania his- tory, are the State Chamber of Commerce and five co-sponsors: | Pennsyl- vania, Pennsylvania Electric As-, sociation, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Federation, Pennsylvan=- | Gas Association, and Pennsyl- | vania Motor Truck Association. A total of 12 prizes will be a- | warded-—four to communities under 2,500 population, for to communities between 2.500 and cities over ond 1,000, third prize $500, and An extra bonus award of $250 will be given to one of the three winners of a first prize, thus rounding out the $10,000 total awards. Winners must agree to spend their prize money on com- munity improvements. Within a few days after the rules and entry blanks were mailed, 11 communities already had advised the State Chamber headquarters in Harrisburg they will enter the contest. These communities were: Altoona, | Monessen, Berwick, Bradford, Scranton, Stroudsburg, Butler, Chambersbrug, Pittsburgh, Wil- liamsport, Meadville. The official deadline for sub- | mitting entry blanks to the State 31, 1953. be judged, accomplish- entire calen- Chamber is March Communities will however, on their mens during the dar year 1955. Detailed reports of accomplishments must reach the State Chamber by March 1, 1956. The population class in which a community competes will be census and will include the “area participa- ting in and directly affected by programs of the entering group” Only one entry will be accepted from each community — which means that participating groups | in the same community must pool and coordinate their efforts. Communities in the lowest population class must choose at least one project, those in the middle class at least two pro- jects, and the 10,000-and-over cities must undertake a mini- mum of three projects. The pro- jects may be anything from city beautification to obtaining a new industrial plants. Thousands of additional sets of contest rules and entry blanks will be mailed during the next few weeks to commu- nity groups aside from cham- bers of commerce. Copies may be obtained by interested groups from the Pennsylvania State Chamber of Commerce, Harris- burg. . PHYSICIAN ON CALL SUNDAY Dr. David E. Schlosser | vocal duet; Terry Stark, trump-! et solo. Student directors for the rhy- | | thm band were Doris Bair and Evangelical Janet Nissley, and in the first grade presentations of the Mech- anical Toys the tops were Teddy | Fellenbaum, Douglas Brown, ! Barry Funk and Gary Cupper, with Joan Aument, Cindy Mum- per, Sandra Harple and Donna Funk as the Dolls. During intermission Arthur | Schneider, president of the School and Home Association, presented a 3-speed record player to Mrs. Broske, music di- | rector, as a Christmas gift to | | the students. | Landisville Area Christmas Lighting To Be Judged Incentive for Christmas light- ing of properties in the Landis- ville-Salunga area has been pro- vided in a contest sponsored jointly by the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Landis- ville Lions club. Three be judged: classifications are to the most beautiful, the most appealing to children and the best Nativity scene. Savings bonds will be awarded the winners. Judging of the displays will take place on Thursday, Dec. 23 between 8:30 and 10:30 p. m. @ - Standpipe Ready For Operation ! Truck. A free Samuel Miller, borough water authority chairman, reported that Mount Joy’s million gallon: standpipe is rcady for operation. Miller said that all ions have been completed and that when the equipment is sterilized, which takes from 24 to 48 hours, the tank will be filled. A complete overhaul of wells, pumps and wiring is scheduled with a view to placing the plant on a fully automatic basis. i» - Party Planned For Children Of Marietta Employes Marietta—The Civilian Wel- fare Council of the Marietta TC Depot will sponsor a Xmas party for employes’ children on Saturday, Dec. 18 at 2 p. m. The program will consist of an op- ening prayer by Father Bernard Mattern of Marietta, the Depot choral group singing 4 Christ- mas selections, 2 Christmas mo- vies, and the arrival of Santa in all his glory on a Red Fire distribution of candy, oranges, ice cream, cook- ies and soda pop will be made. The closing prayer will be giv- connect- | en by Rev. Paul R. Long, Mari- etta, The program will be in charge of Mr. Felix Frater, of Lancaster. Lancaster city and county will be held Tuesday, Dec. 28. in the social rooms of the St. Andrews and Reformed New and Lime streets, according to Christ- the Church, Lancaster, ian C. Rudy, chairman of Lancaster County Chapter. With 100 new cases this past vear, Rudy said indications were that there will be the lar- i gest number of polio victims at- tending this year's Xmas party, for with the record number of cases reported in 1954, the loc- al chapter has better than 600 polio victims on record since the inception of the Lancaster Chapter, and everything points to a record turnout this year These annual have been made possible, Rudy point- | ed out, for the past 20 years through the voluntary and contributions of employees and employers in factories, mills, industrial plants and bus- Lancas- polio affairs support iness places throughout ter county and the local chairman said that without this outstanding support by thous ands of men and women in many trades and vocations and with that of executives and the firms, these annual Folio Christ- mas Parties would never have been possible A community project, Rudy said, which has become traditional here in Lan- ‘At Christmas Time’. Mothers’ Club of the church will prepare the tradi- tional turkey dinner with all the fixing’ and there will be music furnished by a well known orchestra for the sing ing of Christmas carols and to entertain the hundred polio victims. There will be toys, games, candy, fruit - a large variety of useful gifte—the chil dren will have their own light- ed Christmas tree and Rudy said that the committee is planning a special treat in commeration caster - The several of the 20th Annual Party Jus transportation will again be provided for all those needing it to and from the chapter head- quarters to the church John C. Traxel, the local chapter, will serve as toastmaster. Rudy will welcome the children and invit ed guests and Rev. John C. Rae- of St Ardrews pronounce the in- of treasurer polio zer, pastor Church will vocations. Mrs. Mary E. Kirk, executive secretary of the chap- ter, heads the committee ar- ranging the affair ® H. N. Nissly Is Honored On Birthday H. N. Nissly of Mount Joy, who was 82 years old on Thurs- day, Dec. 8. celebrated his birth- day at a dinner in Millersville at the home of his daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Stay- er and son, Samuel. Mr. Nissly appreciated all the birthday cards and personal greetings he received from his many friends. ToShoppers Saturday Yule Dance Is Planned At School Retail Merchants’ gift to Mt. Joy Shoppers will be presented Saturday night, when merchan- dise certificates valued at $1,000 will be awarded. First — $200. Second, third, fourth — $100 each. Fifth through 10th — $50.00 each. 11th through 20th — $10.00 each. 21st through 40th — $5 each. Thirty-three, stores have co- operated to make this event pos- sible. They began distributing Nov. 12, While the merchants are plan- ning a special program at the" grade school for the presenta- | tion of the prizes, it is not nec- essary for the winners to be present. Winning numbers will be published in the Bulletin and | will be posted in the cooperating stores. Saturday's program will be- gin at 9 p. m., with music furn- ished by the Donegal high school band. There will be dan- cing until 11 p. m. The prizes will be awarded at a short intermission at 10 p. m. Following are the cooperating stores: Eli Ament Garage, Booth Department Store, Eich- erly’s Cleaners & Dyers, Eshle- man Bros., Warren H, Greena- walt Jeweler, Greer's Jewelry Store, Samuel Heisey Grocer, Hess’ Food Store. Jack Horner Shoes, J. B. Hos- John M. tetter & Son, Johnson's Chil- dren's Shop, Keener's Home Furnishings, Kitty Dress Shoppe Ray Knorr Furniture, Koser Jewelry Store, Kulp's Lunch- eonette & News Agency. Geo. W. Leaman Tires, Mar- tin’s 5 & 10c Store, H. S. Meck- ley & Sons Plumbing, Mount Joy Bulletin, Mount Joy De- partment Store, Mount Joy Fro- zen Foods, G. C. Murphy Co. Newcomer Motors Inc, H. S! Newcomer & Son, Inc., Lester E. Roberts & Son, Sloan’s Phar- Stehman & Herr Service Station, Tyndall's Store, Way's Appliances, Wolgemuth, Ine, W & R Printing Co., Zerphey's Sico Service Station ® Lights Voted For Four Streets In Landisville Lights for four streets in Lan- disville were approved at a re- cent meeting of East Hempfield township supervisors. macy, Meeting at Rohrerstown, the supervisors voted to erect lights on South, Lania and Conoy ave- nues and Leisure road “ Ken Smith Scores Twice As Bears Win local business with the Kenny Smith, man, who has been playing the Hershey Bcars since start of the hockey season, was important factor in the Bears’ victory over Cleveland last night at the Hershey arena. an Smith scored two goals, one in the first and one in the sec- ond period. The game was high- lighted with a free-for-all in the second period, which sent four men to the penalty box. e LEGION AUXILIARY SENDS PACKAGES Auxiliary of the American Legion Post 185 held their an- nual Christmas party Tuesday in the legion home. A During the business meeting the members donated $5 to the Hospital Package Fund and $10 to the Salvation Army. Christ- mas packages were sent to the veterans’ families. Mrs. Ruth Rineer, president, was in charge of the ‘meeting, which was attended by 34 mem- bers. The members exchang Christmas gifts. i