SEES ve = 4 4 Be i ad a come BRIT - Fos | a Pe ee” TT TY TRY NS SE NE ME EE RENE SEE The Mount Joy BULLETIN FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, NO. 29 MOUNT JOY, PA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1954 1955 Farm Show Dedicated to S More than half a million people will visit the 39th Pennsylvania Farm Show January 10-14 and pay tribute to The Pennsylvania State University for its 100 years of service to agriculture. L pper left inset shows the single building of the Pennsylvania Farmers’ High School chartered in 1855. It grew into the State University symbolized by the view of the rebuilt “Old Main” at upper right. Below is main entrance to Farm Show building in Harrisburg. 1955 Farm Show Local Girl Scouts Plan Summer Camping Trip New and unusual features at Five senior Girl Scouts of Mt. Naugle, and Miss Priscilla Lane, the 1955 Pennsylvania, Farm J0y Troop No. 96 and their|are the persons who will make Show in Harrisburg Jan. 10-14 leader are completing plans for the extensive trip in June. promise to make it the most col- |@ camping trip which will take Mrs. Hawthorne's orful ever held, according to them into Canada and as far a1] experienced campers. Dixie, Farm Show Commission mem- West as North Dakota. Mr. and ' 3 junior in high school and the Mrs. Robert Hawthorne, Set For Biggest Year In History Scouts are bers. Miss | others, sophomores, have all W. S. Hagar, commission | Dixie Baer, Miss Barbara Thome | completed day camping, estab- chairman, says this is the year Miss Nancy Diller, Miss Judy | lished camping, troop camping of all years for the show of all my Team | and trip camping. Mrs. Haw- i thorne completed the trip camp- | ing course and also completed a requirement of a advanced First advance- agricul- | Scout Committee Holds Meeting The monthly meeting of + the shows staged for the ment of Pennsylvania ture. | necessary | camp trip, the The week-long Farm Show is : Aid course. dedicated to the Pennsylvania State University which will cel- ebrate its 100th anniversary throughout 1955. Special exhib- time, the girls have earned its, various farm organization 4 : three-fourths the required a- : . Charters for the coming year . meetings and a pageant will be : mount of money used to pay tribute to the Uni- will be presented to the Troop | finance the trip. versity for its century of ser- and Explorer Post some time in | girls has been the troop com- vice to agriculture. mittee composed of Mrs. Clyde Both the Farm Show and the Eshleman, chairman; Miss Elsie State University trace their or- Lefever, Mrs. Irvin Sai > ¢ rs. Ray iilbert. The igin back to a common parent, |{ Scout headquarters and Mrs. Raymond Gilbert h : . . girle x NE A oy . ol the Pennsylvania Agricultural | in January. girls must have all their menues Society f vd i 35 The : and ‘stop-overs’” approved by Society founded in 1851. The Clyde Gerberich, Jr., was in ths Lancaster Girl Scout office University started as the Penn- ; : a 2 charge of the meeting. 3 » overnig : ing sylvania Farmers’ High School, ae 5 Most of the overnight camping The girls started planning for the trip last May. Since that Boy Scout Committee was held Tuesday evening, Dec. 21 at the Gerberich-Payne office. necessary to Assisting the February. The committee discussed the possibility of moving into the some time chartered by the Legislature in spots w pi ii in Gin Soop 1855. The Farm Show traces its! . camps nroughou ne states j Tells Rotarians These arrangements also have history back to the society- sponsored State Fairs started in 1851. The coming Farm Show will have more livestock on display than ever before, greater parti- beforehand. The chaperones will to be made girls and the camp out each night of the trip The group will be gone seven- teen days. Scheduled to leave on Friday, June 24, the scouts will Of Experiences In Germany Mount Joy Rotary Club mem- cipation by farm youth, more pers Tuesday noon heard Miss be gone until after the Fourth improved and new farm mach- | Eleanor Griffith, graduate of of Sly holiday. The tentative inery terns and the first farm Penn State, tell of her experi- schedule of places to be visited machinery safety tion. One of the most helpful ar- visitors will be | demonstra- s whi i 3 3 : shoes while spending 6 months are from Mount Joy to Niagara in Germany under a youth ex- Falls. From Niagara, they will change plan. enter Canada and travel to Tor- rangements to Miss Griffith divided her time to and to North Bay. From the ease with which they can in Germany between three phere they will come into the locate and inspect grand cham- | farms in different sections, in| ypited States again to Saute pion and champion awards in| each case living as a member of Saint Marie, Michigan and to most divisions of the show. Spe- | the family. She stated that she pyjuth. Minnesota. They will a- cial honor courts have been set| found the German , people ex- gain re-enter Canada at Inter- up to display grand champion | tremely industrious and making pational Falls and then visit livestock, poultry and most top | extraordinary recovery from | .ke of the Woods and Winipeg. place winners in the crop <ec- | the destruction of World War IL | pack into the states again, they tions. | Besides Germany, Miss Grif- will travel to Mayville, North Another new feature if a/fith spent a few days in Switzer- | Dakota. From here, they will “Pennsylvania Quality Farm | and Paris. go to Bemidii. Minnesota; Min- introduced | neapolis, Minnesota; and the Dells, Wisconsin. A stop-over in Sycamore, 111i- nois, will feature a visit to Lo- uise Emenheiser, who formerly lived in Mount Joy. She is the Foods Center” made up of five pn. speaker was adjoining booths totaling 125) by Curvin H. Martin. feet in length in the main = i mean osition hall. Foods typical of De industries will be sold by | Neighborhood Meeting the State Poultry Federation, | Dairymen’s Association, Potato | Is Postponed daughter of the former St. Growers Association, Horticul-| Installation of officers will be 1, Episcopal church rector tural Association and the Bee- | one of the features of the dinner who left Mount Joy to accept a keepers Association. | meeting of the Mount Joy-Flor- | charge in Sycamore. Governor John S. Fine will in Girl Scout Neighborhood| prom Sycamore, the group formally opcn the 1955 Farm meeting which will be held on | 11 visit Chicago. After leaving Show on Monday evening, Jan. Monday evening, Jan. 17. Al- Chicago they will start home 10, before a crowd of 10,000 in | though the regular night for the (rough Indiana and Ohio. the large arena. He will dedicate | 8roup’s meeting would be Jan. | -— the show to Penn State Univer- | 3, the event is being postponed CORRECTION sity after which the State Police | until Jan. 17. E. Musser Heisey, Mount Joy exibition of horsemanship will | The annual dinner meeting | R2. succeeds George Morris as take place. Other evening events, will be held in the local Luth- president of the Donegal Joint include the Rural Talent Festi- | eran church and the women of | School Board, not Daniel Wol- val on Tuesday, horse pulling | the church will serve the meal. | gemuth as stated in The Bulletin contest on Wednesday, livestock | A special speaker will also be last week. Mr. Wolgemuth is, parade, tractor driving contests an attraction of the meeting chairman of the joint authority and farm machinery safety dem- | which is scheduled to begin at whieh has not yet held its re- Thursday night. | 6:30 p.m. | organization meeting. .onstration on DEDICATED TO COMMUNITY SERVICE $2.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE High Schoo! Honor Roll Announced FIRST HONOR ROLL Seventh grade, Carole Garlin, Linda Kleiner, Joan SheafYer, Jean Wolgemuth, Patty Philips; ||| Eighth grade: Helen Felty, Jean Bucher, Barbara Johnson; Ninth grade: Pat Shetter, Patricia Charles, Joan Gilbert, Sandra Koser; Tenth Grade: Carole Wittle, LeRoy Kaylor, Barbara Thome, Mary Ann Felty, Arlene Heisey; Eleventh grade: Joyce Martin; Twelfth grade: Peter Nissley. SECOND HONOR ROLL Seventh grade: Goodall, Harriet Hawthorne, Ar- dis Wolgemuth, Beverly Van Dine, Mary Ellen Adams, ald Corll, Jeanne Zuch, Zuch, Samuel Grove, Bennett, Jane Brubaker, Thel- ma Good, Thomas Chunko, Pat- ricia Johnston, David Nissley, Carol Ann Cupper, Linda Lee! Koser. Eighth grade: Joanne Hart, Edith Weaver, Nancy Moyer, Claudia Binoche, Judith Heisey, Laura Dupler, Doris Heisey, Jacquelyn Mariner, Linda Felty, Fatricia Brenner. Ninth grade: Janice Hoffman, Robert Buchenauer, Tony Mar- | tin, Patsy Mumper, Ruth Krall, ! Sheaffer, Paula Weien, Tenth grade: Eunice Hess, Janet Betty Baugher, Cynthia Lehman, Shirley Metzler, Thelma Snave- | ly, Phyllis Wolgemuth, Betty Raffensperger, Nancy Royer, James Bailey, Douglas Fish, James Shank, Audrey Musser. er, Julia Ruth Ann Moyer, Joan Schneider, Asher Halbleib, Marlene Mumper, Miriam Roland, Beverly Marley Betty McKain, Peggy Wolfe, Louise Horning, Carol Ginder, Miriam Nell. Twelfth grade: Carl Lehman, Phyllis Levan, Shirley Gerlach, Ann Young, Bernard Thome, Ruth Drescher, Loewen, ald Raber, Daisey Brooks, Doris Groff, Barbara Martin, Karleen Raffensperger, Gloria Scholl, Kay Zimmerman | SUNDAY Kathleen fl | “The Grace of Being Still” Ron- James | James! Lina Ivanowski, | Way's Toy Center. Eleventh grade: Gerald Beck-' - Sonja Carver, Helen Gorman, | Marian Kline, Gail Shelly, Don- | FOR JANUARY JANUARY 4 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5 “The Meaning of Church Membership” THURSDAY, JANUARY 6 EVANGELICAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH JANUARY 9 I : " the Week of Prayer services. Association services. extends an Universal Week of Prayer THE CHURCHES SPONSORED BY MT. JOY MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION JANUARY 2 wo 9, 19 55—7:30 p. m. SERVICES IN EACH ST. LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Dr. Ralph W. Schlosser, speaker ‘The Plan of Salvation” CHURCH OF GOD Dr. Ralph W. Schlosser, speaker Dr. Ralph W. Schlosser, speaker | “The P'ace of a Disciple” ST. MARK’S EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN - CHURCH Dr. W. Maynard Sparks, speaker il Dr. Schlosser, of Elizabethtown College and Dr. Sparks, || Chaplain at Lebanon Valley College, are the speakers for | Mount Joy invitation to you to attend these | These inter-church services stress the basic one-ness of our belief, and through them we witness to our faith and to our faithfulness in following Christ's commands. Let us | resolve now to attend these services and witness for Christ Local Churches Plan ‘Watch Night Services Three local churches will fea- ture Watch Night Services New Year's Eve, The three are Calvary Bible Church, Mt. Joy Methodist, and the St. Luke's : Episcopal Church. Meyers, | phe Rev. Don Ricard, mis- Arthur gionary to North Africa who is Street, home on furlough at the present has time, will be the guest speaker at the Calvary Church service at 10:15 p.m. Also included in the special program will be spe- cia music and a short talk by the local pastor, the Rev. W. L. Wilson. The annual year's his- tory of the church and its activ- ities will be read and testimon- ies will be offered by members of the congregation. A prayer period will be feat- ured at 11:45 p.m. and immedi- ately after the new year arrives, a communion service will be conducted by the pastor, “Bible on the Table” will be [ the film feature of the Methodist Church Watch Night Service at 10:30 p.m. Following the film showing, a period of fellowship and refreshments is scheduled Band Uniforms | for 11:00 pm. A service of Former Mount Joy 5 ‘Man To Conduct ‘Radio Series {| The Rev. Richard H || son of Mr. and Mrs | Meyers, 37 W who for the past ten years Donegal been pastor of the Calvary Inde- pendence Baptist Church, Sal | tillo, Pa., will start a series of | radio programs over Red Lion Radio Station, 1440 on the dial | The first program will start on 1) Jan. 2, and will continue each Sunday through January and February, from 10 to 10:30 a.m. Pastor Meyers can also be Chambersburg and radio originate” from heard on Huntington, Pa All programs Saltillo, Pa. Pastor Meyers was a member of the 1931 graduating class of Mount Joy High School stations. | praise and prayer will be cone To Be Chosen | ducted by the Rev. William Four companies have been Harner from 11:30 p. m. until contacted to show samples of | after the New Year arrives. band uniforms at the January St. Luke's service from 11:00 meeting of the Donegal High to 12:00 will be a candle-light School Band Club Monday eve-| service. The Rev. E. M. Moyer ning, Jan. 3. According to the | will deliver the sermon “Golden club officers, H. Morrell Shields, | Keys for 1955.” Mr. David Sch- | concert band director, arranged losser will preside at the organ for the four to show their uni-| for this evening prayer service. Ministerial Ronald Corll Wins Coloring Contest Ronald Corll won the grand prize in the Christmas coloring contest sponsored by Way's Ap- pliances. He was awarded a motor-driven model of the steamship, USS Missouri Weekly winners in the est, besides Ronnie, Pennell, Kathy Way, line Shrum and Rose Taylor. Each was given a prize eo LOCAL MEN ATTEND | CONVENTION John Hart, Mount Joy, represented Donegal | High School at the 102nd annual teachers conference in Harris- | | burg this week. Mr. Hart is vice | pringipal of the local Richard Jones represented the Hempfied High School, Speakers at the convention were Gov. John Fine, public instruction and William G. Carr, secretary of the Nation- | { al Education Association. Tax Assessment Modernization Required Under 3-Year-Old Law (Editors note: In the first ar- ticle of this series the need for the modernization of assessment practices in Pennsylvania was analyzed. The creation of the Tax Equalization Board in 1947 was the first step towards the enactment of the “New Real Es- tate Assessment Law”. In this article the further steps taken by the Legislature are discus- sed.) Prior to the convening of the 1951 session of the Pennsylvan- ia State Legislature, the Local Government Commission of Pennsylvania members of the Senate and the House of Representatives) made a detailed study of real estate systems in other states. In this study the Commission found in a great many states that taxes were being collected from real estate, some directly and others indirectly. The State of Pennsylvania has never collected taxes from real estate, always reserving this field of taxation exclusively for the use of local government. The Legisators on this Commis- gion also found that assessments in some other states were equal- ly as chaotic as in Pennsylvania. However, in 12 states, real progress had been made in re- solving the problem. According to the Pennsylvan- ia Local Government Confer- | ences some states had made more progress than others, but on the whole the principles on which the program was made were substantially the same. These states required the estab- | lishment of land values by prop- (comprised of members of the found the states had resorted to maps outlining the property as described in the of-| fice of the Recorder of MOUNT JOY MAN ELECTED FOR SIXTH TIME Melhorn of of the of Coatesville. Groff, Rheems, treasurer. een senses sss: er board of public officials, and those land values had to be ap- plied uniformly by zones and districts so that the land of sim- | having the | same use in one part of the] ilar character and county would be assessed at the same value as a similar proper- | ty in another part of the coun- | ty. The land values were fixed | 24th $ as a result of studies of sales in| 25th § the respective districts or zones, | the Conference states. In this study the Local ing had overlooked properties that were escaping any taxation 32nd $ at all. paying for land, provements had been erected on the land. Others who were only whereas im- To resolve this Commission Deeds. (Tum to page 2) sixth time Donegal For the Producers Also re-elected is rhe Physician On Call Sunday Dr. William Workman | | Numbers Of Winners Are Listed Twenty prizes to date in the awarding of ™M*® $1,000 in merchandise by the Retail Merchants division of the Mount Joy Chamber of The meeting will be held at con- were Billy | Jacque- | from | Commerce. Lists of winning numbers are | posted in all the cooperating: i stores. The merchandise coupons Eph rata Offe rs are redeemable up to March New Haven St. Following is the list of num- | bers and prize winners to date: Year's Eve Pa rty school. | Francis | B. Haas, state superintendent of | ' 14th § 10.00 Mrs. Helen Strickler Gov- | ernment Commission also learn- | ed that the old system of assess-' 30th § problem the 37th parcels of 40th LOCAL MAN IS | ZONE 7 OFFICER Marlyn Myers, South Barbara | Street, Mount Joy was | secretary of Zone 7 of the Lan- John E.!caster County Firemen's Asso- Springs ciation. Drew Mummaw, Road has been elected president! ville, was elected president to SPONSORED BY LEGION Cooperative | succeed Ray Myers, Mount Joy. Elwood Miller, Landisville, was attended the annual Christmas Elmer: elected vice president and Wil- | iam Kell, Rheems, president. Other officers are Charles An- Larry Smith, Columbia, second shown to the kiddies. At the end obtained by vice; and J. Albert Haug, Col- of the show, each child was pre- at the Training Center or by meeting of ® | held January 18 in Florin. forms at the meeting which is een | . | | open to anyone interested in the band. All club members are ur- Vets To Challenge ged to attend the affair. Asa at- Posts On Small Size | / » representations | tending will be representations Members of the local VF.W. of the various high school class- . ; met in regular session Monday es to express their preferences. ‘ . : | night at their post home. Final Sauvenir plates of the high ports were made about the school have arrived These | ov, istinas tree sale ond the plates are being sold by the | winner of the December club mbers of the band. They fea-! ons announced. Mrs. Martin ture a picture of the high school Brows in the center of the plate. eight have claimed coupons The announcement was made that Jay Ginder, adjutant, will submit information to the state paper, “The Word". on the local post concerning its small size. The state paper will then chal- lenge the other states as to whether or not it is the smallest in the nation. A discussion on | the hometown movies was also 7:30 p.m. in the high school ° Li Teenagers New { held, Frank Mor ;. © and- Tot $200.0 .. Mrs. Ben Gant! community 10 the SR or wa it he og gammangd 3 1 rr. was charge a pot- 2nd $100.00 Maude Buller | ic offering a New Year's Eve g 3rd $100.00 Mrs. Ray Haug! event for the youth of the town! ° aa 4th $100.00 036787 In Ephrata, te teohagers will SGT. WILLIAM J. DERR $ 50.00 Carl Brandt Ve able to look forward to a jg gpRryING IN JAPAN wo aa New Year's Eve celebration in iG : i 50.00 Patricia Elliott Ephrata Recreation Centcr. Cane Kokura, Japan — Army - - ’ . So £ . err <Q 50.00 Evelyn Zeager Sponsored by the boys and girls i Wo "ey De ey — 50.00 . 015021! clubs of the center, the party Jaa FS rus ety 50.00 . Mrs. Henry Hess) will be entitled “Club 55”. This |. Barbara Street, Mount Joy, 50. Mrs. Henry ess Vv > e : ws > Say sw » 2 i= = a is the first time that the teens of f, 15 S¢ Tving with the 24th Di 50.00 .. 589091 ; . fantry Division at Camp Koku- : a community have planned a fa Jap: 10.00 . Henry Raver party of this type, and the idea ra, | apan. : 10.00 Loretta Hornafius js gaining wholehearted support Sergeant Derr, a member of 10.00 Ralph Leed from borough residents the 26th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion’s Headquarters Bat- tery. entered the Army in Nov- ember, 1951 and arrived over- The club will operate from 9 p. m. to 1 a. m. and will be open to couples only. One member of 8 each couple must be a student last February. at the Ephrata High School. The 10.00 Jacob Klugh party is being planned by the GRADE SCHOOL HALL 10.00 515700 committee made up entirely of IS BEING PAINTED 10.00 Mary Jane Aument teenagers from the Center with Painting is being done in the 5.00 . Harold Foster Bernard Huagnini, recreation local elementary school during 5.00 Henry Raver direetor, acting as liason be- the Christmas recess. The lower 5.00 . Norman B Kolp tween the clubs and the board hall where the first grades are located is being painted a dark 10.00 . G. F. Naugle 10.00 Mrs. E. Mateer 10.00 Mrs. W. Scheffler of directors 500 .... 502667 Hn isi 5.00 Mrs J Hockenberry Borough citizens are pitching green and right yellow. This 5.00 .... John Baugher in to help make the evening a ha'l is located next to the en- 5.00 Betty J. Wolgemuth success. Members of the Cen- trance into the stage and runs 5.00 . : 560791 ter's board of directors and oth- the length of the school 5.00 Mrs. J. Newcomer er borough residents will serve 5.00 .. Maude Buller as waiters, door men, bouncers Billets Available 5.00 . . 001111 and candy girls at the night : 5.00 .... 291566 club. Members of the local Jun- Foi Six Junior 5.00 Mrs. Chas. Wittle ior Chamber of Commerce will . . 500 ..... 340531 also assist in the party Line Officers 500 ... .. 130046 5.00 Mart. Longenecker made plans for a 5.00 Mrs. Allen Shearer Eve party for the Another community has also Lancaser Jillcts for six New Year's Junior line officers in a drill youth of the pay status are now available in 5.00 ii 054030 borough through the facilities the Lancaster Naval Reserve 5.00 ...... Earl Mvers of the borough recreation cen- Surface Division 4-49, it was 5.00 25067 ter. Lititz will stage a “Club announced today by LCDR Wil- wr ° ee Moroco’’ with the traditional lard C. Hatch, Commanding Of- New Year decorations and noise ficer of the Lancaster Naval makers. Barnard Lehmann, di- Training Center, Orange and rector of the center, is in charge Parkside Avenue, Lancaster. of the event and will be assisted Both men and women are elig- by teenagers on his committees. ible. LCR Hatch said. re THFATRE PARTY IS elected There is one billet for a Lt. Line officer on a drill pay status now available. Naval Reserve Surface Divis- ion 4-49 drills each Tuesday night at the Naval Aeserve Cen- and Parkside Iron- Approximately 700 children theatre party in the Joy Theatre which was sponsored by the ter, Orange St. Walter S. Ebersole Post 185 Avenue. American Legion. Eight cartoons Information on the specific first vice; and a short western show were billets now available may be calling personally fourth vice Bainbridge, treasurer. The next gented with candy and an caling. Lancaster, 3-3313 any- the group will be orange by Santa and his Legion- time between the hours of 8 a. naire helpers. m. and 4:30 p.m.
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