Fight Polio Join The 1955 March Of Dimes The Mount Joy NEWSPAPER YOUR HOME BULLETIN DEDICATED TO COMMUNITY SERVICE a a pC po ] hy ANNAN The Physician On Call Sunday Dr. John Gates FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, NO.34 | SCOUTS OBSERVE 15th BIRTHDAY BOX SCOUT WEEK POSTER Boy Scout Weel® Feb. 6 to 12 marking the 45th the Boy Scouts of] Amu rica, will {ing and the rich heritage it has of | in this country. Boy Scout Week marks the be observed throthghout the na-|Completion of the first year of the tion by more thar and adult leaders. more than boys and men have been rfnembers. row CK” “pb is the EL 95, 0 Pra Jo Uns, Specia 3,660,000 boys | National Conservation Good Turn Siuce 1910, | the organization has undertaken at the request of President Eisen- hower. | fied “Building for z; Beiter Tomor-| servation Good Turn Certificates themie. | of Merit awarded jointly by the )0 Units, thre: 45h Secretaries of Agriculture and the 4! Interior, urpose of Seo 1t- | Douglas McKay, Units which have quali- will receive National Con- Ezra Taft Benson respectively. and Activities Planned For Boy Scout Week Here The Mount Joy Boy Scouts will observe Boy Scout Week, starting Sunday, Feb. 6 with the nation's 3,660,000 Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Explorers and adult | This 45th anniversary | | crease over last year’ leaders. of Boy Scouting in America car- ries a theme, ‘Building Better Tomorrow” The local Scouts will begin their week by attending a church service at the St. Mark's E. U. B. Church Feb. 6 and they will climax the week with an attendance at the service of the Trinity Lutheran Church, Feb. 13. Tuesday’s highlight will be the Rota'y Club’s dinner at Hos- tetter’'s. The Scouts will be the gucels Ff the club for this affair. Boy Scout Week is the largest annual single observance by young citizens. Since Scouting was incorporated in Washington, D. C., Feb. 8, 1910, more than 22,750,000 boys and leaders | have meen enrolled. The Bocal Scouts completed a nationalj project; the National Conservation Good Turn, which | the Scouls have undertaken at the request of President Eisen- hower, their Hono.ary Presi- dent. The program at the Rotary dinner Tuesday ' will be in charge of the Scouts. A portion of the probram will be an “Our Heritage” celebration. Most of the 51,000 troops who have 1,- 130,000 members in the United States will be sponsoring these celebrations which portray the lives of the three men who lived the ideals embodied in the Scout | for a Mothers March ‘Shows Increase | Reheard, Oath and Laws. A feature of the | program will be the “Court of} . Honor”. Cub Scouts will accompany the Scouts to the two church | services. Another Scout has been nam- ed to make the tour to New | Mexico in August. He is Jerry Buchenauer. The other three are Robert Buchenauer, Harold Et- gell and Ronald Schofield. The Explorer . post scrap drive last Saturday and announced that théy appreciate | | | completed the the people’s contribution to the’ drive. The proceeds will be used for the trip to New Mexico. Mothers Marches in both Mt. Joy and Florin showed an in- s totals. In Mount Joy, Mrs. Warren Funk and her committee collected $675.30 and in Florin Mrs. Jas. Madera and her workers collect- ed $139.75. Volunteers who assisted Mrs. Funk were Mrs. Bruce Pennell, Miss Margaret Divet, Mrs. Jos- eph Taylor, Miss Joanne Funk, Mrs. Raymond Vallee, Mrs. Ed- ward Brown, Mrs. Clyde Ger- berich, Mrs. Thomas O'Connor, Mrs. Hubert Rice, Mrs. Janet Witmer, Mrs. Harold Fellen Nancy Nissley, Eugene Funk, Miss Smith, Mrs. Simon Mrs. Winfield Hendrix, Leonard Safko, Mrs. Beamenderfer, Mrs. Lloyd Will and Mrs. Harry Farmer. A col- lection was also made in the local theatre Friday & Saturday | rights by the sixth grade stu- dents of the local school. year’s total for Mount Joy was $648.00. Florin workers were Mrs] Madera, Mrs. Erma Wagner, Mrs. Charles Hill, Mrs. Robe t Mrs. Charles Sload, Mrs. James Vogel, Ms. Gish, Mrs. Miles Robinson, Mrs. Dean | Robison, ‘Mrs. Viola Bricker, Mrs. Martin Liggins, Jr. Last year’s total was $112.50 DONEGAL HIGH LIBRARIAN IN COLLEGE PLAY CAST Mrs. Marilyn Young Herr, li- | brarian at Donegal High | | School, has been cast as “Amy”, in the Millersville State Teach- ers College production “Char- | ley’s Aunt”. The play, to be pre- | sented Feb. 3 and 5, is another of the calendar of ev- ents of the centennial celebra- tion of the teacher's college. Tests Passed Three scouts passed the second class requirements to become ‘Second Class Boy Scouts during Jatuary. The three are Ralph Rice. Richard Becker and Bern- ell Heisey. Last | fire house, voted | poned until the MOUNT JOY, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1955 $2.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE Evangelistic Crusade To Begin Here Sunda Cubs, Scouts Tour Capito! ‘And Station Ninety-five Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts took a train ride on Saturday between Mount Joy and Harrisbu:g. Carrying out the January theme of Cubbing, “railroading”, Samuel Dock and Mrs. Myrtle Nornhold ar- rarged the trip. Mr. Dock and his son, Samuel Dock, Jr., the Cubs, Girl Scouts from troops 147 and 212, Girl Scout leaders, Den Mothers, Den Fathers and several parents accompanied the group which left the local station at 9:22 a. m. Although the group took their lunch for noontime, most of them started to eat as soon they boarded the train. Upon ar- riving in Harrisburg, they took a tour of the station and witnes- sed a half hour movie on rail- roading. They were taken to the main tower and also had their pictures taken. From the station, they visited and toured the state capitol and museum and returned to Mount Joy on the 2 p. m. train. Mrs. Sadie Brooks accompan- ied the group as $e nurse. BorouahGains Twenty New Homes In ‘54 issued as Twenty permits were for the building of new homes in the borough during 1954 it was announceu by Christ Wal ters, who issued the permits for the local zoning commission. The permits were issued to James Spangler for a new home | on Park Avenue; Clyde Tripple, Pinkerton Road; John H. Miller, Lumber Street; Calvin Kramer, Detwiler Avenue; Geo. Brown, III, South Delta Street; Horace C. Light, South Delta Street; Henry F. Becker, Birchland Av- enue; Vernon Young, Marietta Avenue; John Germer, Marietta Avenue; Robert McGinley. Fred erick Street; Marlin Sinegar, Park Avenue; James Forney, Birchland Avenue. Hornafius and Zink, Elizabeth- town, one new home on Sp ing- ville Road and two on Birchland Avenue: W. H. Hornafius, Eliza- "| bethtown, two on South Market baum, Mrs. Howard Brown, Mrs. | Street, two on Springville Road and one on Birchland Avenue. a - Merchants To Sponsor Dance Series Retail Merchants Committee, meeting Tuesday night at the to assist the sponsoring of the young Mrs. | Asher | JoyCees in the monthly dances for people. The merchants voted to pur- chase records and to pay for | janitor service at the grade school the nights of the dances. Election of officers was post- rext meeting which will be held the second Monday of March. Also discussed were future promotions and the possibility of establishing a local cred. bureau. School Group Plans "Sample Fair’ Tentative plans were made to hold a “Sample Fair” Monday April 25 by the School & Home Association of the local school. Mrs. Myrtle Nornhold and Mrs. Ruth Brandt head the commit- | | waste fats ready for the collec- tee to plan for the special affair. The co-chairmen met with the'r committee Monday night and | made plans for the benefit pro: | ject for the group. 3 . uniforms for the Donegal day, Feb. 12 in Jaycees To Sponsor Youth Day Norman Garber, Mount Joy R1, has been named chairman of the Youth Day program to be sponsored by the JayCees at the Donegal High High School. O. K. Snyder, Jr. has been named as co-chairman. in Government Plans for the forthcoming el- ection in the new school will be announced by Mr. Garber next The local group formerly he'd the program in the Mt. Joy High School and will continue their annual project this year in the area school. A new feature of this year’s youth program will be election of delegates from each school to attend a le- gislative at Harrisburg on Youth in Government Day. ° Welfare Officer Makes Financial Report For Year The yearly report of the Mt. Joy Welfare Association was re- leased by the treasurer, at a special meeting held recently. Expenditures for the year in- cluded the following: week. session Power & Light Interest $120. C. Pennsylvania Company, $10. K. Newcomer for at playground $150. Mount Joy Borough School Board for por- tion of playground supervisors for 1953 and 1954 $875.10. L.. B. Herr and Son girls’ play- ground equipment $43.94. Keener's Furniture Store for Girl Scout equipment $21.72. Sloans for drugs for needy per- sons $2.25. H. Moulson, $4.00. Store needy persons $51.31. (May 5, 1954 to Jan. 20, 1955) Power & Light Company Oak Ally Building $1.00. Rutt, Liability for Oak building $13.68. Total for work orders. for Penna. for Titus Alley $1,293. Charles Bennett, of the organization, that the upkeep for the Oak Al- ley Boy Scouts will be between $300 to $400 per buildirg’s completion. This mount will take care of lights, and insurance of the buil- Jr., preside.t year heat, ding. It was also announced that as a review statement, any persons who need food may Mrs. Simon Nissley for living between North Market and East Main Streets; Mrs. Clarence Newcomer, South Mar- ket Street and E. Main Mis. Mary Toppin, North Mar- ket and West Main Streets; and Mrs. Lester Roberts, South Mar- ket and West Main Streets. In this manner, the borough is di- vided into four quarters. J Band Club To Make Fina! Selection The final selection of High School Band will be made Mon- day night, Feb. 7 in the Donegal High School. At the scheduled monthly meeting of the Donegal High Band Club, the members will choose the final style green and white school uniform. The meeting will be held the school at 7:30 p. m. -® FAT COLLECTION TO BE HELD BY SCOUTS Girl Scouts and Brownies in both Mount Joy and Florin will conduct a fat collection Satur- the Residents'are asked to have all in tion that day. In case of incle- ment weather, the collection will be postponed until the next Saturday, Feb. 19. transportation ! | lic Warehouse. ! committee janitor announced | upon the a- | contact | those | | regular meeting Streets; | band | morning. | Local Group | To Hear U.S. C. of C. Head Clem D. Johnston, president of the Chamber of Commerce of | the United States, will be the | principal speaker at the Nation- al Affairs Conference to be held | in York. The conference will start with dinner Tuesday, Feb. | 8, at 6:30 p.m. and will be held | in the Valencia Ballroom, North | George Sreet, York. Mount Joy is one of the fif-| teen chambers of commerce and business organizations of this area who are jointly co-spons- oring the conference which will bring an audience from seven | south - central Pennsylvania | counties. Mr. Johnston will speak on | “Boundless Frontiers.” He was | elected president of the Cham- | ber of Comme:ce of the United | States at their annual meeting! last spring. The National Cham- | ver is a federation of 3,152 chamber of commerce and trade associations with their ing membership of over 000. Describing himself as a “typ- ical business man, and in no sense of the word a big business man’, Johnston operates and re- | sides on a 450-acre cattle farm near Roanoke. He has interests in six wholesale groceries; is a director of several other con- cerns, and until he recently leased out” the enterprise, was proprietor of the Roanoke Pub- His work for the began in '32 resolutions director, underly- 1,600,- National Chamber and has served member, vice president and president. as Co-sponsoring chambers of commerce Mount Joy, Car- lisle, Chambersburg, Elizabeth- town, Gettysburg, Hanover, Lar:caster, Lebanon, Mechanics- burg, Red Lion and York Another outstanding of the conference will be ald A. Young, legislative dinator of the National Chamb- er. His subject will be “Your Congress and You’. Charles Fish, Curvin Sr., Paul Stoner, Sr., Maurice Bailey, Robert Vanderslice, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Balsbaugh and Mr. and Mrs. Adam Greer wi'l represent Mount Joy at the af- fair. are speaker Don- | co-or- Martin, Elizabethtown Lions Visit Local Club Members of the El zabethtown Lions Club were guests at the of the Mt. Joy Lions Club Tuesday evening at Hostetter’s. The 75 Lions heard the Rev. H. J. Kauffman, of Har- risburg, as the guest speaker. Rev. Kauffman spoke on “One World”. He discussed the fact that scientific developments brought humans close together but people still have not learned to live together The next meeting of the group, Feb. 15, will be Farmers Day. Each Lion is asked to in- vite one farmer to the meeting. for the officer's action. POST OFFICE CONVENIENCE: Horn Blowing After Game Brings Fine Arrest of a zealous basketball at 9:35 21 has rise to considerable speculation fan in Mount Joy the evening of Jan. given among the hundreds of Donegal high school boosters in the com- curbs munity regarding what they should place upon their en thusiasm. Following Donegal’'s victory 21, Eli- Mt. drove over Elizabethtown Jan Robert A. Williams, but a former now of zabethtown, Joy high school student, into town blowing the horn his car. on To his amazement, he was flagged down by Officer Michael Good and given a ticket for lating the motor vehicle which forbids the blowing of automobile horn: except warning signal for emergencies Williams is still what's back of the doesn't question the technically there was vio code, an as a wondering arrest. He fact that grounds However, for many years now fans have celebrated their teams’ victories with brief episodes of horn blowing, and Williams, still a loyal rooter, was following tra- dition. At a hearing Thursday. Jan 27, before Justice of the Peace James E. Hockenberry, Will'ams was fined $10 and costs, a total a total of $13.50, for the inci dent. Asked if the arrest means that borough police plan to crack down on horn blowing, Officer Good told The Bulletin: “I wouldn't say. I'm only fol- lowing orders. You will have to ask the chief.” So to Chief swered : “Until I'm told to do different- ly. The chief said that school of- ficials had been told some weeks ago that horn blowing after the games would have to be stopped. He said that with the operation , the same question was put Park Neiss, who an- | of the joint school there is much more involved now than just a | lem has few Mount Joy youngsters blow- ing automobile horns after the games. He pointed out that the prob- increased with more | cars descending upon the boro | after the games, and that there | have been more and more com- Clem D. Johnson, of U. 8 Chamber of Commerce. wlaints from residents about ho.a. blowing. Baal Lo 1 PV The curbside mail box at the Mount Joy Post Office went in- to operation Monday morning. The new box will assist motor- ists since they will no longer have to get out of their auto- mobiles to deposit mail. One parking meter was re- moved by the borough in order to create a space in front of the box for the convenience of cus- tomers. The curb has been pain- ted yellow also as a reminder to persons that there will be parking there at any time. no Elmer Zerphey, postmaster, asks that all citizens are to com- ply with the law by not park- ing their cars even momentarily in the space provided for the box and marked with the yellow curb. Only through the cooper- ation of the citizens by never parking there will the new pro- ject be a success. Seen trying out the box is Ralph Eshleman. ® new curo Cookie Salesmen To Canvass Towns Cookies will be Joy and Florin, as well as thru- out Lancaster County, Girl Scouts beginning Monday will be sold in Mount by next This seventh annual sale held in two sections; will be Ma: ch Local cookie chairmen Mrs. Maurice Bailey, general chairman; Miss Helen Schroll, t.oop 8: Mrs. Frank Hassinger, 170; Mrs. Clyde Tripple, 147; Mrs. Howard Brown, 212; Mrs Richard Hoover, 105; Mrs. Leo- nard Johnson, Jr., 96; Mrs. Rob- ert Johnson, 121; Miss Maude Buller, 82; Mrs. Arthur Sprech- er, 75; Mrs. Earl Mowrer, 194 and Mrs. Gerald Zielke, 238 The purpose of the supplement the to ‘continue leliveries made 5 and 26 are; sale is - 1 to operating funds; (2, reserve for major camp replac- ments; 3, to expand the total outdoor program in 1955; 4, to help to provide troop treasuries by giving 5¢ for each box sold to the individual troops so that there will be individual t.oop money raising activities to build a less Last year the girls topped the goal of 105,000 boxes. This year their aim is 110,000; this is at thirty boxes per girl ® - COUNTY CONTEST 1 HELD AT DONEGAL The 1955 Oratorical Contest for District 10 of the American Legion will be held rext Thurs- day afternoon, 2:00 p. m., at the Donegal High School it was an- nounced by James Shaeffer, dis- trict commander. Six county schools will take part. They are Do egal, J. P. McCaskey, Man- heim Township, Manheim Cen- tral, Solance and Terre Hill - ® - - ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL Dr. William M. Workman, 55 Marietta Street, Mount Joy. has been admitted to the General Hospital, | Lancaster. set 'O BE Four Churches To Participate In Services Sunday marks the first day of the local Evangelistic Crusade spongored by four churches of the borough — St. Mark's Ev- angelical United Brethren, Church of God, Methodist and Evangelical Congregational, The nightly services (except Mondays) will be held unt] Sunday evening, Feb. 20, in the E. U. B. church at 7:30 p. m. The Rev. Joseph Brookshire, will conduct the Crusade. M s. Brookshire will solos and join in singing duets with her husband, and will play both the piano and the organ. Clyde sing Record, associate evan- gelist, will be director, choir master and youth worker, Sam Hood will be musical as- sistant and will play the organ, piano and vibra-harp. The Rev. Mr. Brookshire and Mr. Hood conducted the Crusade here last year. Head Of State Fire Protection BureauSpeaksHere Speaking on “The Shocking Truth,” Sgt. Lawrence L. Priar Tuesday noon told Mount Joy Rotarians an almost unbelieve- able of pioperty damage and loss of life caused by fires in this country. Sgt. Priar, president of the Internat’ onal Association of Ar- Investigators, heads the Bureau of Fire Protection of the Pennsylvania State Police. He pointed out that since the turn of the century has destroy- ed more and taken wars of all song tale son fire property more lives than the time He pointed to the of the United States that Americans record as evidence the most careless people in the world, and branded the careless business householder being “just vic the persons who deliberately a fire.” to the problem delinquency, the speak- ted six reasons fo fire are man or as as ous as set Turning ol juvenile er lis young getting into difficulties: parental people [. Improper super- vision 2. Inadequate schools. 3. Lack of proper law enforce- ment 4. Lack of proper for chi'dren. 5. Alcoholism. 6. Lack of interest ious education institutions relig- in MOUNT JOY MAN ENLISTS IN U. S. AIR FORCE J. Marlin Young, eghteen, 223 East Main Street, Mt. Joy, has enlisted in the United States He is one of eighteen to enlist during Jan- was sent to the Samp- for training. ® - SMOKER IS SCHEDULED A Valentine Smoker will held at the posthome of the Wal- ter S. Ebersole Post 185 Ameri- can Legion, Friday night, Feb. 11. Prizes to be awarded will be U. S. Savings Bonds » (CTR. WEARS BADGE SFCOND STRAIGHT WEEK For the second straight week Constance White will wear the gold badge among the sixth patrolmen of the local Connie was voted to the badge by her class- mates for her thoughtfullness to children and for always being guard post. . » OFFICES ARE MOVED Dr. Harold Fellenhaum moved his dental offices from his D=lta Stre~t address to 17 West Main Street in the same building with the Dr. W. L. Shoop offices. Air Force local men m base uavy. be grade school wear on her has
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