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The Mount Joy
BULLETIN
MOUNT JOY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1955
FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, NO. 33
Rev. Joseph Brookshire Western District Scouts) School Nurse |
Meet In Local School |
will Conduct Crusade | Ralph Rice, cubmaster of DiscussesNew
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Observes Youth Week
The Rev. Joseph Brookshire
will conduct the Evangelistic
Crusade in the Evangelical Uni-
ted Brethren Church in Mt. Joy
Feb. 6 through 20 with the
Church of God Methodist and
Evangelical + Churches
cooperating. The services
be held nightly at 7:30 p. m.
throughout the campaign. There
Cong.
will
will be no service on Monday |
nights.
In addition to bringing
message Rev. Brookshire takes
part in the musical part of the
program as a baritone soloist.
Marjorie Brookshire, wife of
the evangelist, renders vocal
solos as well as blending her
with her husband's in
thrilling duets. She also assists
at the piano and organ.
Clyde Record, associate evan-
gelist, is song director, choir
master, and youth worker in the
Brookshire Spiritual Life Revi-
vals.
Sam Hood is the musical
sistant, playing the organ, piano
and vibra-harp. He is also in,
as-
charge of the children's pro-
grams and activities during the
crusade.
The final evening combined
prayer meeting, prior to the
scheduled services, will be held
Wednesday, Feb. 2, in the Evan-
gelical Congregational Church at
7:30 p. m. The breakfast pray-
er meeting for men will be held
6:30 to 8 a. m. in the Evangeli-
cal Church annex.
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Youth Day To Be
Observed Sunday
Youth Day will be observed
Sunday, January 30, in the St.
Mark’s EUB Church in all the
services of the day. During the
morning worship, Clair Wagner
Jr., will preach on the theme,
“One Fellowship in Christ”.
Special music will be sung by
the Youth Fellowship chorus.
Ushers will be Christian Miller,
Charles Groff, William Vogel,
James Reisch and Glenn Kaylor.
Others participating will be
Robert Buchenauer, Jean Miller,
Ronnie Jean Reese and Robert
Reisch.
Mary and Richard Schneider
will have charge of the Sunday
School devotions and seven
young people will teach the ad-
ult and young people’s classes.
They are Darla Kulp, Rona'd
Gotwalt, Jean Mumma, Jean
Kauffman, Ronnie Jean Reese,
Lorra‘ne Kendig and Clair Wag-
ner.
In the evening all the youth
of the town will conduct a com-
munity youth program.
MOTHERS’
LGA RI
the
the construction of such
as pens, chutes, feeders and oth-
er specially-designed devices.
| the use of new and
| farm practices.
Nov. 1,
| prize. The official
|
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MARJORIE BROOKSHIRE
SAM HOOD
CLYDE RECORD
Sponsors National
Contest For Farm
Building Improvements
Pennsylvania farmers . and
lumber dealers joined this week
in a nationwide contest which
offers $10,000 in cash prizes for
farm building improvements.
Designed to encourage farm-
ers to make their operation eas-
ier and more profitable, the 1955
Farm Building Improvement
Contest offers two grand prizes
of $1,500 each and also two
prizes each of $750, $500 and
$250. There are 40 $100 prizes.
Local lumber dealers are co-
operating with the sponsors of
the contest, the National Mfgs.
Association and Better Farming
magazine, in advising farmers
on their building projects.
Eligible to compete aré such
| projects as a new farm building,
the remodeling of an old one,
and addition to a building or
things
Improvements could be, for
instance, easier to build, or
more efficient, or more original
in planning, or best’ adapted to
Any project begun after Jan.
1, 1955, and completed before
1955, is eligible for a
entry blank
can be secured by writing to
Better Farming magazine.
try blanks are free; there is no
charge or fee of any kind to en-
| ter the contest.
En-
improved |
| Pack 136, Mt. Joy,
of the opening
Western District
| Boy Scout
elemen.ary school
had charge
ceremony of a
Lancaster Co.
Council at the local
last Thurs-
day. Stuart Gourley, Lancaster,
was in charge of the business
meeting, and the program of the
| evening was in the form of a
round table discussion. C. J.
{ Chuako, Mt. Joy, and Mrs. Am-
brose
Plummer, Elizabethiown,
round table
“Let
| Freedom Ring! The remainder of
conducted the first
| discussion on the theme
| the program included ropework
exhibits, a tree identification
skit and a dramatization of de-
veloping brief tableaus for cere-
| i
| monies.
|
| Directors
Named For
Co-op
Abner Risser, Bainbridge and
Ralph Breneman, Washington
| Boro, was re-elected to the
| board of directors of the Mount
Joy Farmers’ Cooperative As-
| sociation Tuesday evening at
| the annual meeting held at Hos-
tetter's Pavilion.
S. A. Horton, manager,
ted that the 1954 volume totaled
24.777,000 pounds with a value
of $1,357,000. These figures com-
pare with 25.4 million pounds
and a value of $1,400,000 in
1953. The price averaged $4.41
repor-
per hundredweight of 47% milk
which was a drop of 24 cents
under the 1953 average and 76
cents under 1952. According to
tae report, this drop at the New
York Market is due to the fact
that more plants and more pro
ducers have been added to the
pool.
The 190 producer members of
the co-op represents a gain of
seven in the year.
Dr. Richard Myers, dean at
! Moravian College, Bethlehen,
presented an illustrated lecture
“The Long Crooked River’, and
the Elizabethtown College quar-
tet provided music. Galen Herr,
Elizabethtown, led the group
singing and Mrs. Herr accom-
panied on the piano.
Ivan Parkin, dairy specialist
from the Penna. State Univer-
sity, discussed quality control in
milk production and Harry S.
Sloat, associate county agent,
gave remarks. Mr. Risser, presi-
dent, was in charge of the busi-
ness meeting. The dinner was
attended by 276 members and
their wives.
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Donegal Juniors
Choose Play
“The Call of the Banshee”, a
mystery comedy, is the play that
has been chosen by the juhior
class of the Donegal High School
for their spring presentation.
Catherine G. Zeller will direct
the production which will be
presented in the auditorium Ap-
ril 1 and 2. Try-outs for the cast
| will be held Monday, Feb. 7.
The play committee is George
McKain, Julia Lowen, Beverly
Marley, Asher Halbleib, Miriam
Roland and Scott Carpenter.
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| MAN INJURES HAND
'AT WORK
Charles F. Feidt, 422, Colum-'
bia Ave., Mount Joy, was injur-
ed Monday night when he!
caught his hand in a punch
press at the New Standard Cor-
poration. He wag treated at the
St. Joseph's ‘Hospital for imme-
diate surgery of his right hand.
| Mrs. Edgar Wentz, Salunga.
Denta! Clinic |
Mrs
nurse,
Sadie Brooks, school
the
High School dental clinic at the
the Mount
Joy School and Home ‘Associa-
discussed
Donegal
regular meeting of
tion Tuesday night in the ele- |
mentary school auditorium. She
that be
the clinic next Wed- |
announced work will
started in
nesday.
Being the only one of its kind!
in the county, other than the
|
city clinics, it will be under |
constant observance by other
schools in order to see if it will
carry out its function, since |
there are several schools inter-|
ested in establishing similar
clinics.
Burgess B. Titus Rutt, Ronnie
Peter Nissley at signing of Yo
The clinic was made possible
effort of the 3!
Lions Clubs in Donegal District.
Mount Joy, Florin and Marietta.
through a joint
Burgess Proclaims
Youth Week
Mrs. Brooks introduced the,
: Titus Rutt, burgess of Mount
president of the Florin group Joy, proclaimed Youth Week in
3enjamin Staley wno in turn Mount Joy by signing a procla-
intreduced representatives from mation Jan. 25. Youth Week will
the other two groups, Charles
Hershey, Mt. and John
Goodling, Marietta. She also in-
troduced Dr. Harold Fellen-
baum, the clinic dentist.
be observed from
30 to Feb. 5.
The Mount Joy Youth
cil has planned special
for the week. Sunday,
the morning worship
will be conducted by
Sunday, Jan.
Joy;
Coun-
events
Jan. 30,
services
the youth
She also announced that the
TB X-ray unit will be stationed
at the Donegal School Monday in each of the borough’s church-
Mar. 21 and tentatively at the © In the evening, William
Hutchenson, Ephrata, will be
Gerberich-Payne Shoe Company
on Mar. 22 guest speaker at a community-
wide joint service. This service,
During the business meeting too. will be conducted by the
conducted by Arthur Schneider, | youth of the town and will be
president, the group decided to held in’ St. Mark's EUB Church
pay for one week's work of at 7:30 p. m.
painting another hall in the Monday through Friday the
school. Mrs. Myrtle Nornhold youth will conduct morning de
ard Mrs. Ruth Brandt, co-chair-
votional services at the Donegal
man of the Sample Fair project,
High School following the theme
announced that their plans are of the week “One Fellowship in
progressing and named a com- Christ”. The Youth Council of
mittee to meet next Monday
the borough will have charge of
night in the school for final ar- two of the services: the voung
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rangements. ruc Brown, people from Marietta, one %Ser-
+} « . lav . .
chairman of the playground vice. young people from May
equipment committee, announc
ed that four pieces of equipment
and would be in-
the weather
made
and
grade
town, one service and the mem
bers of the “Youth For Christ
Club” of the school, the other
service.
have arrived
stalled as soon as
permits. Edward Walters
Cub Scouting
first
Displays will be placed in
various store windows in Mount
Joy showing what the different
a report on
Mrs. Emma Good's
was awarded the prize for hav-
: youth groups have done during
ing the best parent attendance. |; g i ®
the past year.
Dr. Ezra H. Ranck had charge °
of the invocation and Mrs. Jos-
eph Detwiler gave two
logues
Rod Teen-agers
Volunteers March To Dance
Saturday
For Polio Funds
All teen-agers of Mount Joy
‘Mothers’ March Polio” % trarater 4 invited 1c. al
will be held tonight in Mt. Joy, and the area are invited to at-
on
AE : thy tend the Teen-Age Hop Satur-
Florin and vicinity as well as
day night in the Mount Joy
throughout the county and na- : . il
grade school auditorium. The
tion. The Mothers and other
volunteers will March on all
streets as a climax to the Jan-
uary March of Dimes drive to
raise $85,000 in Lancaster Coun-
ty.
JoyCees are issuing this invita-
tion to all people who are in the
junior and senior high school.
The dance will feature music
« by the Donegal Dance Band for
dancing from 8 to 11 p. m. Ad-
mission to the dance is free.
Chaperons will be Mr. and Mrs.
Warren Hayman, Miss Christine
Weidman.
Refreshments
If any missed by
the collectors, a call to the chair-
men in the various communi-
ties will be appreciated Local
chairmen are Mrs. Warren Funk
persons are
consisting of
fount Joy; Mrs. Elmer For- cokes and chips will be sold
wood, Florin; Mrs. Cleon Kah- with Mr. and Mrs. Michael Pri-
ler, Landisville; Mrs. Benjamin cio in charge. Considering the
Boltz, Maytown; Mrs. George response to the refreshments, at
Bender, Milton Grove, Mrs. future dances more variety will
Robert Becker, Rheems; and be offered at the refreshment
table.
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| station. Each of the
' president: Mrs.
| al secretary and Mrs. Ann Geib,
| in February.
January 23 marked the date
of the beginning of National V.
| F. W. Week across the nation.
i During the past year, some 7000
V. F. W. posts carried out 280-
000 youth activities projects that
reached 5,000,000 boys and girls.
National recommended youth
programs adopted by posts dur-
ing 1954 included scouting, mar-
| ble tournamen:s,
ball, youth softball, junior bow-
{ ling, junior rifle groups and
{ “Huck Finn Days”. In 1955, V.
F. W. will conduct two national
competitions for state champ-
ions. The ninth annual marble
| tournament will be held in
Denver, Colorado, June 23-25
and the period from August 15-
{ 20 has been for the
| third annual
tournament to
Hershey.
set aside
teen-er
take place in
Jean Reese, Clair Wagner and
uth Week proclamation.
| national week is
| membership campaign.
| post in each battalion that
| ports the greatest number of
Cubs To Take [een oils ple
Train Ride wall plaque;
‘To Harrisburg
| Gavel Bell.
| Den 4 was admitted to
Mount Joy Cub Pack at
regular meeting last evening in
To
re-
emblem
second prize, a
{ Four other main projects were
| carried out by the national or-
the | habilatation service; support of
sid ‘
their | the national home for orphans
and widows of V. F. W. mem
hers; 504,00
the local elementary school au-{", 8. Ly :
vice projec’s and the promotion
ditorium. Mrs. Michael Good is | of veterans legislative service
Den Mother of the pack which |
Roland Is New
Board Secretary
John Roland, Mt. Joy R1, was
elected as secretary of the Don-
egal High School board
at the regular last
Fish- | Thursday night to fill a vacancy
local | created by the resignation of
pre- | Paul E. Portner, Marietta. The
board approved an appropria
| tion of $25,000 to meet current
| expenses of the mon:h and dis-
ser
|
consists of boys around the W. |
Main Street area and her assist- |
ant is Miss Loretta Rider. Ralph |
Rice, Cub Chief, introduced the |
new den to the group and pre- |
sented each boy with their Bob |
Cat awards for |
completing their first tests. i
pins as taeir
school
meeting
Warren Foley and John
er, representatives of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars,
sented the pack with a flag and |
four den flags
Robert Keller passed a test by!
the opening
ceremonies of the pack meeting. |
Eacl I | students could deposit the mon
Lachn
the January
cussed a school savings account
taking charge of for students. Under this set-up,
presented a skit on
“railroad- |
ack : 4
5 ey in the banks of their choice
theme of in Mount Joy, Maytown or Mar
ing”. Included in the skits were| . bit . ;
ji 3 : I ietta. The finance committee will
trains made by the boys {rom
i 1 study the proposed project
rarapoar JOXES. |
0 ! A lease agreement to be
In conjunction with their | signed by the school board and
“railroading theme’, the boys | authority members for the pur-
will take a train ride Saturday! chase of over 20 acres of land
to Harrisburg and back to Mt. | surrounding the
Joy. While in Harrisburg, the| as an athletic area and parking
bovs will be shown around the | space, was presented.
den mem-
school for use
bers and their Den Mothers and
Den Fathers will make the trip. | To Have Paper
Next month's theme will be | Drive Jan. 290
“Let Freedom Ring”. Each den| ad
will study a famous man from The Explorers of Troop 39
America’s history. One willi Mount Joy will gather paper,
scrap iron, rags and cardpoard
study Abraham Lincoln, another
Many business places have al-
George Washington; another,
Daniel Boone. Bruce Brown, as- | ready co-operated by saving
sistant Cub Chief, was in charge cardboard for the boys.
of the meeting and announced The Explorers would appre-
ciate if the community would
that the next pack meeting will
be held February 23. save the above mentioned items.
° They expect to make drives
monthly.
The first paper drive will be
held on January 29. Please have
your paper on the sidewalk by
9:00 a. m. Saturday. It help is
needed to carry the paper, we
Group To Sponsor
Square Dance
Tentative plans were made to
hold a community-wide square
dance free to the public at the Will be glad to carry it for you
January meeting of the Mount 85 We pass your place with the
Joy Friendship Fire Co. Auxil- truck.
The greatest part of the pro-
iary last Thursday evening. De- !
ceeds will be used to finance a
finite plans will be completed at
the February meeting of the trip to the Philmont Scout
group Feb. 17 Ranch. The trip will cost each
: | Exployer $200 which he will
Mrs. Kate Barnhart was instal- | have to earn by July 1, 1955.
led as first vice president; Mrs.{ There are 30 Explorers from
Josephine Kaylor, second vice Lancaster County who will take
David Mumper,
recording secretary and financi- |
this trip. Three boys from Mt.
Joy. Ronnie Schofield. Harold
Etsell and Robert Buchenauer
chaplain. Due to the absence of are earning their own way for
the president and corresponding the trip. They will earn the!
secretary, Mrs. Park Neiss and money by holding food sales, |
Mrs. Irene Eltz, will be installed paper drives
and working at
| part-time jobs. |
teen-er base- |
baseball |
Held in conjunction with the!
a nation-wide
the
| ganization in 1954; veterans re-
I cookie
“HomeTown Movies” will be
held ai the elementary school
auditorium Wednesday and
Thursday evening, April 13 and
14, it was decided by the spon-
sors, the Veterans of Foreign
Wars Post 5752, at their regular
meeting Monady night. The e
movies will include film taken
| within the last year of local ev-
ents and people. A feature of
the event will be the showing
of films that were taken several
years ago as hometown movies
John Charles was the winner
of the VFW Club award for the
month. The group decided to
send a basket of groceries to
Cliff Covert, who recently re-
turned home after a stay in the
Lebanon Veteran's Hospital and
to send flowers to Jay Ginder,
who is hospitalized with a back
injury.
Thank you letters were read
from SFC Harold Eby, Valley
Forge Army Hospital, and from
the Sumpman family. In the ab-
sence of the commander, Ralph
Rice, was in charge of the meo!-
ing. He announced that the 9tn
| district VFW meeting will be
held Sunday, Feb. 13 at the
Kenne't Square Post and that
the next regular meeting will
be held Monday, Feb. 14.
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Girl Scouts To
Sell Cookies
The seventh annual Girl Scout
sale of Lancaster Coun-
ty will held Feb. 7 to Mar.
26. Girl Scouts and Brownies in
the Mount Joy and Florin troops
as well as all those in the county
will be selling four flavors of
The Weston Biscuit
Company cookies to be sold are
vanilla in
and
be
cookies
twin packs; chocolate
vanilla sandwich; chocolate
mint and sugar wafers.
Scouts and the
twelve troops in Mount Joy and
Florin will be ready to take or-
for the first of
The first orders
Mar. 5.- Tre
second orders will be turned in-
to the office by Mar. 19 and de-
livery will be Mar. 26.
Mrs. Maurice Bailey, Donegal
Sprirgs Road, Mt. Joy, is cookie
chairman for the local neighbor-
jrownies in
ders February 7
two deliveries.
will be delivered
made
hood. Anyone wishing to pur-
chase cookies may call any
Scout or Browiie or Mrs. Bail-
ey
The goal of the county this
vear is 110,000 boxes or 30 box-
es per gir! Last year with a
goal of 105,000 boxes, the girls
sold 123,000 boxes. Last year,
there were 3,900 Scouts in the
county; this year, 4,500
The troops get a percentage of
the sale and the county gets a
perce tage. The percentage that
the troop makes may be used
for any purpose desired and the
that the county
makes goes to defray the expen
ses of the growth of Girl Scout
percentage
ing in Lancaster County and to
pay for capital expenditures for
Furnace Hills Camp. In addition
to paying for these expenses, the
the
re-
council presented each of
county Day Camps with
quested needed equipment.
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