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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.
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is the
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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(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.
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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