| \ A, oF * Ln AANA PANINI Support The American Red Cross Drive The Mount Joy YOUR HOME NEWSPAPER ULLETIN DEDICATED TO COMMUNITY SERVICE The Physician On Call Sunday Dr. David E. Schlosser FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, NO. 39 New Borough Pumping Engineer Small Children To Be Filmed )onegal Earns District 3 Playoff; Begins Duties Saturday, March 12 Shatz Retires After Forty-six Years Service John H. Mount Joy, new Joy Miller, Lumber St., has been named the pumping engineer for Mt. Borough water. His new du- begin this Saturday when will succe Schatz. Mr. Schatz is retiring his posititn after to the ties he 'd George from forty-six years In six years as a borough his dayss«off from the His his of service his forty community. cmployee, job were practically children helped none, him with need arose. retiring, from job if the Upon Schatz ad- works to his daughter and son- Mr. and Mrs. Harold Brown, Columbia Avenue, Mt. Joy. For the past fifteen years, Mrs. Brown has walked to her father's home é6nce and times, twice a day, to in houschold chores. Mr. Miller was formerly an electrican at the Marietta T.C. Depot and repaired diesel loco- He and Mrs. Miller will into the home at the Mr. the water will move house aeent to home of in-law, the some- assist him motives not move water works. The water the first large borough of Mt its incorporation. was the first superintendent Mr. Schatz since 1909 The announcement was. made the borough water authority which was created in 1950. Merchants Elect Officers For '55 John Way ope of projects of the Joy following William Kuhn and was superintendent works was by was elected chair- man of the merchants’ commit- tee at a postponed meeting of the group last night at the fire- Larmon Smith was nam- Samuel Bals- house. ed secretary and baugh, treasurer. A di held for on a sales promotion idea April Mr. Way appointed a committee for the and has planned a committee Monday Also business meeting was the park- ing situation in Mount Joy. The next meeting will be held Tues- scussion was project meeting for March 14. during next evening, discussed the day, April 12. o TWO RECEIVE HONORS Robert M. Miller, Florin and William Tyndall, Mount Joy arg men to re- first semes- two of five county ceive honors for the ter in the mathematics at Frank Fre inklin & Marshall College. course GEORGE | H JOHN MILLER Peter Nissley Wins Legion Essay Contest Peter Nissley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Nissley, Mount Joy, is the winner of the American Legion essay contest at the Don- egal High School. Peter wrote a 1.500 word essay on “My Method of Promoting Democra- tie Citizens”. will now be enter- American Le- gion contest as the entrant from the Donegal School. ® Grade School Sees Two Special Programs Two special programs were held in the Mount Joy Elemen- His essay ed in the county tary School Wednesday. In the morning “Jaison the Golden Flea”, a marionette show, was shown to the students of Kin- dergarten through sixth grade. In the afternoon, Phillip Ro- venolt, a junior high school stu- dent at the Donegal High School, put on a magic show stude nts. fo . the Mount Joy Sportsmen Sponsor “Miss Outdocrs” Miss Roberta Wagner has been chosen as the eniry of the Mount Joy Sportsmen’s Associ- | ation is the Lancaster County “Miss Outdoors” contest. Miss Wagner, senior at the Donegal High School, resides in Iron- ville. The Mt. Joy Sportsmen will award Roberta a United States war bond for being named ‘Miss Donegal” in the contest. The “Miss Outdoors” contest will be held at the Lancaser County Sportsmen's Show, Mar. 15 thru 19. The Queen will be chosen from contestants the first night of the show and will reign over the rest of the festi- vities. She will remain queen for one year. The winner will be awarded a Hamilton watch. This marks the first show that the local club has entered a can- didate in the county-wide test. The regular monthly meeting of the association will be held con- | Candidate WAGNER in the a picture by entitled MISS ROBERTA Monday, Mar. 14, At this time, fire- house. Walt Disney Colony” will be shown. public is invited to attend meeting and view the film. ‘Beaver the seeking the nomination. of SCHATZ Contest Created For West Ward's Constable . Two Republicans seeking the nomination at the May 17 primary for constable of the west ward. With the peti- tion filed by Michael Good, he M. Kaylor will seek are now and Irvin the nomination on the primary. Mr. Kaylor filed his petition last week. east ward, is con- Republican pri- that he Park E. Neiss, for the with his petition stable mary filed. Petitions were filed for the May Primary for persons living in both East Donegal Township and lower Mount Joy Township Moiday. Marvin Fol'z, Maytown, filed a petition for constable in East Donegal Twp., Clayton Miller, Marietta, justice of the peace; C. Arthur Wolgemuth, Mt. Joy R1. justice of the peace; and Miss Marie E. Harter, Maytown, inspector of elections. Jonas Leinard, Florin, filed for constable in Mt. Joy Twp. Democrats nominated in the West Ward for the Primary el- ection are Albert Myers, school director: Charles J. Bennett, counc’l; Paul Hipple, assessor; Earl B. Myers, judge of elections and Charles R. Ebersole, inspec- tor of elections. L. Schroll filed a peti- the Republican nomina- judge of elections and Shirk, inspector of el- John tion for tion of Christ R. ections. Clarence C. Heist bethtown R3. filed for judge of elections Mount Joy Town- ship in the Milton Grove dis trict and Agnes Holwager, Mt. Joy R2, inspector of elections. © Firemen Favor Bingo Vote For State Local firemen went on record and, Eliza- in favoring legislation legal zing bingo in Pennsylvania at the March meeting of the group last Thursday evening. The unami- mous vote of the group will be recorded in a letter to the Hon. Edwin Eshleman in the State House of Representatives. Also decid~d during the meet- ing conducted by Miller Wolge- ninth, president was a ham smoker Friday evening, April 1; and a carnival some'ime during the three summer months. The group decided to pur- chase three lapel pins; two fifty- year service pins for Martin | Spickler and John E. Schroll | | | and one honorary pin for K. T. The | Keller. A rescue squad will be form-| (Turn to page 12) i the | evenings shows entitled their { Sppear } | have asked MOUNT JOY, PA. THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1955 For Hometown Show In April All pre-school children and | babies are invited to have their pictures taken free of charge for “Hometown Movies” show which is scheduled to be held in the Mt. Joy Elementary School auditorium, Wednesday and | Thursday evenings, April 13 and 14. The local Veterans of Foreign Wars 5752 sponsoring the show which will consist of mov- ies taken of local people and ac- tivities and a series of old films is taken of town residents as far back as 1939. Joseph Shaeffer, photograph- er for the group, has issued the invitation for all pre-school children, babies and their par- ents to appear in the film of the *“Citiz- ens of Tomorrow” All parents who wish children’s moving in the film may to have picture contact Mr. Shaeffer to make arrange- ments for a time. His phone number is 3-4604. He will come to the homes of the children but all shots will be out-of-doors movies, Times that he would like to take the pictures are 10-11 a. m. Mondays through Fridays, Sat- urday afternoons and Sundays. A {ime limit has been set up for the picture taking. Parents are asked to make the necessary arrangements so that all the pictures may be taken by 3 All the hometown movies remain intact after be- ing used for a showing. The committee suggests that parents should think how these films will be appreciated the two nights of the show and ten years from now when a hometown movie program’ will feature “small children grown up”! films of College Conch To Speak At Local Banquet Jernie Santeniello, ex-fool- | pall coach of Millersville State] Teachers College, will be the] guest speaker at the sixth an-| Mount Joy The af- | Mount on nual banquet of the Old Timers Association. fair will be held in the American Legion home Joy Friday evening, April 29. Honored guests of the affair will be the members of the championship Donegal High School basketball team and the | winning Donegal Junior High School basketball team. i Other business transacted at the executive committee ing last Thursday night was the decision of the group to again] sponsor a Midget baseball team and to hold the 2nd annual bask- | ethall game. The basketball | game will be a twin bill with the Donegal Indians playing a- gainst the alumni of the Mount Joy, Marietta and East Donegal High Schools and a game of old timer members. The date of the game will be announced at a later time. A collection will be taken and proceeds will be plac- ed in the award’s fund. Since the award for the out- standing athlete has been elimi- nated, there will be awards giv- en to past and present athletes of the community. Invitations will be mailed on April 1 for the banquet. A cus- tom of the past exists again this year—Persons do not need invi- tations to attend the affair but they do need reservations. reservations as soon as after April 1. their possible Council Adopts Budget For 1955 ~The Mt. Joy buuget of $55,589.97 receipts and $55,575.00 expect- ed expenditures was adopted by council members at the regular mecting of the group Monday night. A 10 mill tax on real es tate and an $8 per capita tax| were included in the budget fig- | amounts are the Borough 1955 ures. These same as last year. The group decided to adjust the rates of openings of the bor- ough strects. Heretofore, a flat charge of $5.00 was charged to any person or company who needed to open a street. An or- dinance will be adopted at the next meeting changing the rate from a flat charge to a figure judging on the number of square | yards opened. The council members went on record asking William Brian, secretary. to contact the borough authority asking for a report on the sewerage progress. They the authority to meet with the council members ( Turn to Page 5) 0. K. Supder, Jr. ‘Named Jaycee President For ’55 meet- | | because of one It | is suggested that persons send in | expected | |ing’s | Ground Observer's Corp of O. K. Snyder, Jr. president of the Mount Joy Jun-! ior Chamber of Commerce at a O. K. SNYDER, Jr meeting Monday night at the home of Jay Eicherly. Other officers elected at the meeting held one day ahead of schedule the Donegal-Swatara Township basketball game were Harold Zimmerman, Jr., first vice president; Warren president; William secretary; Mr. Eicher- ly, treasurer; Norman Garber, year director and Burton Shupp, two year director. Nich- olas Leitner, past president, will also be a one year director. The election was conducted following campaign speeches by Mr. Snyder and Mr. Gassman. The winning candidate advcecat- ed a better sharing of the work of projects among the members; the retention of all members and the possibility of obtaining new members. second vice Gassman, st April the | was €lected | $2.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE Route To Saturday's Game Listed Donegal High School will play Palmyra High School in the district 3 basketball champion- ship game Saturday night af Al-| bright College, Reading. Tickets | will be on sale at the office of the Donegal Saturday noon they last); The winner of game will move into inter-dis- trict play-off games before reachng the eastern regional finals. A route to follow to arrive at this | | High School until | (or as long as | | the college is as follows: is suggested that drivers i Rt. 222 into Reading. After crossing the bridge bear right at the fork and the street is Bingamon St. | Proceed on Bingaman Street to Tenth Street. Turn left on Tenth Street wheh has a traffic sgnal and is a one-way street; proceed to end of 1600 block (a dead end) at Exeter Street turn right and travel on Exeter Street for three blocks to another dead, end which is 13th Street. Turn! left on 13th Street and by trav- eling one block on 13th Street, drivers will arrive at Albright College. On the return trip, drivers cannot come back to the bridge on 10th Street since it ig a one way street going the opposite way. Persons should come back to Bingamon Street on 9th St. It is a one way street in the proper direction back to Binga- mon Street. Eleventh Street does not lead to Bingamon St. Joycees Welcome Eighteen To Be Inducted Into Two Families To Mount Joy Two new families were wel- comed into Mt. Joy last week by the local JoyCees. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Witmer, West Donegal Street, were welcomed into the borough by the commit- tee. The Witmers and their two children moved here from near | Allentown. The second family visited were the Mr. and Mrs. Russel Floyd family. The Floyds mov- g | ed to Mount Joy R2. The Floyds have one The installation of the officers | will take place in April. Mr. Leitner had charge of the even- meeting. He announced that a film concerning the the U. S. Air Force will be shown 'at the next meeting. Four commiitees were ap- pointed and will begin making plans for the proposed projects of the next few months. William Gassman and Paul Stoner were named to the Road-e-o project; Bernerd Grissinger and Charles Ryman, co-chairman of the jun- io» tennis tournament with Mar- shall Dussinger and Elwood Rice: Mr. Leitner and Frank Young, co-chairman of the com- munity picnic project, with Jno. ticket chairman; Jacob Corll, golf chairman; Earl Rhoads, games; and George Al- bert, transportation. Members of the annual Dawn committee are Mr. S'oner , Zimmerman, Mr Hayman, merchants and businessmen | the borough. from Manheim child, a ten-weeks-old girl. Mrs. Hayman, Mrs. Warren | John Landis and Mrs. Nicholas | cher, | Miriam Nell, Leitner visited the two families. | This project is made possible through the cooperation of of If citizens know of into the bor- any newcomers the | Honor Society Eleven seniors and seven jun- iors of the Donegal High School will be inducied into the Nation- al Honor Society Friday after- | noon, 2:30 p.m. in the high | school auditorium. The honored students chosen | for the society are Helen L. Bu- cher, Sonja Carver, Ruth Dres- George Franke, Helen Gorman, Doris Groff, Marian | Kline, Jay Metzler, Kay Metz- | ler, Sara Jane Portner and Karl- | Raffensperger, seniors; and | Carol Gindenr, | Peggy Wolfe. | Roland | juniors. een Lvnne Fackler, Marlene Mumper, Miriam and Sampho Stephanis, Entrance into the society is] based on a percentage of the to- | tal senior and junior classes. | The Donegal Chapter at the] | present time has seven mem- | ough, a call to Mrs. Warren Hay- | man would be appreciated. a ne @® I Fireman In Accident Enroute To Fire Richard Kepple, a Mount Joy fireman who missed getting a ride on the firetruck, collided with a trhek, on the way to a grass fire Tuesday afternoon, at 1:35. The Mount Joy Friendship Fire Company was called to ex- tinguish a tire at the farm of John Bullock, located between Mount Joy and Columbia. bers who were chosen last year | when they were juniors. They | are Peter Nissley, Loretta Gar- | lin, Alan Kugle, Barbara Mar- | | tin, Ann Young, Shirley Gerlach | Marilyn Myers, chief hose di- | took charge of the men in the absence of both the fire chief and assistant fire chief. He said that the blaze was confined to dry grass but that the cause could not be determined. Mr. Kepple attempted to pass a truck on the right but in doing it sideswiped the truck and crashed Damage to the parked car own- rector, ed by Earl Wolgemuth, Mt. Joy R1. was set at $1,100; $300 to Kepple’s car and $75 to the truck operated by Maris Gainor of Mount Joy. State Police said that Gainor | and Donald Raber. The seven members will be in | charge of the induction cere mony. The Rev. C. E. Franke, pastor of the Marietta Method- ist church. will give the address. Donald Raber and Peter Nissley will play a frumpet duet, and Barbara Martin will play a pi- ano solo and the processional and recessional on the auditor- ium organ. Miss Catharine chairman of the Society committee and commit- tee members are Mrs. Margarel Bernight and Mrs. Betty Lutz. The seven Zeller is the National Honor original members will conduct the induction cer- emony of the National Honor Society at Paradise High School | Friday, April 15, Miss Zeller an into a parked car. nounced. - 5 — — The destroyer oldest ship types. one of the kept is It has pace with modern developments made no signal that he was a-| bout to turn. Mr. Kepple was treated at the office of Dr. Thomas O'Connor for brush burns and lacerations. State police will continue their investigation. ®- ATTENTION RESIDENTS OF MOUNT JOY BOROUGH The early morning collection service that was placed in effect on February 18th, as ordered by the District Managers Office of the Post Office Department is hereby cancelled. The 7:00 a.m. collection was ordered cancelled by the District Managers Office effective March 7. The collect- ions will be made by the car- | riers on their daily trips as here- tofore. ELMER L. ZERPHEY p— — “I don’t want to see any more of the kind of purchasing power that means dollars watered { down through government defic- a Ae Mr. Snyder, Warren Foley, - Michael Pricio, Charles Johnson and Gerald Hostetter. its, borrowing, and inflation.”— Charles R. Sligh, Jr, NAM Ex- ecutive Committee Chairman. cince the 1870° S. Public Hot Cake | eph Shaeffer, TT TITEL STS Seven Directors Named By Local Rotary Club Mount Joy Rotarians Tuesday noon elected seven members to the board of directors. They are: Robert Hurst, Charles Ruhl, Jos- JAY METZLER Sam Balsbaugh, Charles Fish, Michael and Larmon Smith. Election of officers will take Pricio | place at a meeting of the direct- ors later this month. Speaker of the day was Mor- ton Eugene Wildy, world trav- eler. Mr. Wildy also spoke be- fore the students at Donegal high school. Mr. Wildy emphasized the im- portance of building up coun- tries economically. He pointed out that communism wilts when a ‘nation is prospering econom- ically. The speaker pointed to Greece and Turkey as prime examples of countries that we have aided out of economic serf- | dom as among the strongest bul- warks against communism. Mr. Wildy suggested that the United States should be willing to pay a living wage for the products, and that there should be an ever increasing foreign investment program. Metzler was the of the club's lun heon, chosen Student at Donegal honored He the Jay guest was of Week’ Breakfast To B» He'd By Local Liens Club Mount Joy Lions will sponsor ‘Hot Cake’ breakfast in Mt Joy Saturday morning, Mar. 26. For the first time, a public breakfast is being featured in the borough. The affair will be held at the local firehouse. Ten- tative plans call for begin- ning at 7:00 am. with a menu consisting of hot cakes, coffee ana fruit 1s sausage, juice Henry Zerphey has been | ed chairman of the project. His committee of Lions include Da- vid Myers as co-chairman, John Landis, William Batzel, Howard Sutter, Raymond Knorr, Mau- rice Ba'ley and Paul Gingrich, club president. ee TWO WIN GOLD BADGE Two boys were awarded the gold badge award at the Mount Joy Elementary S-hool this week. The two are Glenn Peifer and James Harnish. The two were given the honor because they found a small boy, school age, who was hurt took him to his home. and not of. Senior Extension Club Hold Annual Banquet Approximately 100 persons at- tended the first annual.banquet of the Lancaster Senior Extern- sion Club last Saturday at the John Naugle, gave an illustrated Summer in Switzer- Witmer Firehouse Gettysburg, talk on “‘A land” Elvin ister: Hess, Jr. served as the Jane Greiner, ban- . pianist; group singing was led by Norman Kolp; Kathryn Bowers, Dorothy Johns and Al- ma Shank sang trio songs; Elea- nor Griffith gave a reading. ‘A boys quartet consisting of Ray- mond Denlinger, Aaron Landis, toasimae quet | Stanley Longenecker and John Stoner sang and Dorothy Metz- ler played a marimbo solo The banquet committee in- cluded Miss Jeanette Breneman, Mount Jov R2: James Endslow, Marietta R1: Robert Harnish, Conestoga, R2; Eleanor Griff h, Ephrata R2; and Herbert loyer, Lancaster RS. Lad SEES RS