OWL arr aaa "Florin Lions THE BULLETIN Lancaster County, Pa. Larmon D. Smith, Publisher Editor and Publisher, 1901-1952 Subscription Rate $2.50 per year by Mail Advertising rates upon request. | Entered at the postoffice at Mount Joy, Pa., as second-class mail under the Aet of March 3, 1879. Member, Pennsylvania News- paper Publishers’ Association. | . By a wise Editorially If you've been putting off WHERE TO GO FROM HERE? raking leaves and shoveling Mount Joy borough council snow for the past six months, it has under consideration the in- js now time to put off cutting of additional parking the grass. meters on the side streets. SE In the light of one borough And if you can’t get away for| employe’s remark (“If they do a vacation this year, you can! not put them in, we'll have to get the same feeling by staying| take a pay cut’) it is to be as-| at home ang tipping every, sumed that primary purpose fourth person you see. back of considerations of move ————— meters is the borough's need Frank Shreve was telling his| for additional revenue. customers down at the Inn that: No one should quarrel with “If we had our lives to live ov-| hard facts. Mount Joy borough er. a lot of us would make the! council. like any governing Published every Thursday at 11 . East Main Street, Mount Joy. Plan Public sell items for anyone On ¢ has donated his services as the auctioneer. John E. Schroll, Auction Friday, June 3, is the date for the first public auction sponsored by the Florin Lions Club. John M. Hess is chairman of the event and his committee includes Norman Strickler, Ar- thur Wolgemuth, Clayton Esh leman. Woodrow Fitzkee, and Benjamin Staley The auction will be held out doors at the Florin Hall, wea | ther permitting Items for the cale will be kept inside the { hall if necessary. The club will commission basis Donated items will also be accepted with the proceeds going to the club Walter Dupes, Elizabethtown, | Anyone desiring to enter on the sale is asked to get in touch with Mr. Hess or any | committee member to make ar- rangements same mistakes. Only we'd start body almost any place you'd Trio; Soloist To sooner.” go, needs additional revenue to Sales talk. eh? | continue operating. Costs Fees Sura government have risen ong Jimmy Kipple told me tha‘| with costs of other services {he fellow that put him in the HOWEVER, it would seem «Owl column” last week, is| (nat a “go slow” approach is afraid to sleep in his own home. | oo There are som ques- Don't ask me why! — — He | tions that need conclusive an- also said he is the biggest blab- | swers BEFORE more meters ber-mouth in town! — — Now} | are installed dort worry - - -, 1 wont tell} 1. How many meters will be who it was. required to produse the needed additional revenue’ Lee Holtzman, owner of the 2. How much will these me Lincoln restaurant called a new | .2 | ters cost the borough? waiter to his office and said, | : “You've only been with us four | days and you have already brok- en more dishes than the amount 4. Is there not some other pay for them? vou think we can remedy this | additional revenue at cost to in the future?’ the public? The waiter studied the prob- 5. As revenue needs increase | lem for a moment and came up | in the future will it be the po- with a solution, “I don’t know, | jicy of the borough council to unless you raise my salary.” continue pushing out the park- ing meter district? If so, how Philosopher Enck says “Often | far can they go with meters when a man says his mind is! and derive revenue? Isn't it getting broader, it only means logical that meters will pro-| his conscious in stretching.” duce less and less per meter ned the further out they are placed, | Down at the Print Shop in so that cost in relation to rev- Lancaster, where Earl Rhoads | enue produced will become works. the “apprentice boy’! completely out of line? was rather late one day last In most communities parking week and upon arrival, told meters are installed to correct hic boss the reason was, “He| bad parking conditions and to had to get a hair cut’ — —| create revenue for the install- The boss rather perturbed ex-| ation of off street parking facil claimed: “I know that your ities. In Mount Joy council hair grows on our time members have stated repeated- but I'll be doggone if you're! ly that they need the revenue gonna have it cut on our time’. | from the meters to operate the ete borough. Harry Troutwine and Gerald There is no quarrel with Hostetter took off last Saturday their argument that they need to do a little fishing — | revenue to operate the borough the first hour was rather tire-| The question is: How much some - - - not a single bite, | further can they expect to go but then things started to pop!| With parking meters to rais: - - - - Harry felt a hard tug on that revenue? Isn't Mount Joy the line - - - he started to reel | already at the point of dimin in the line and then he reeled | ishing return on parking meter and tugged some more, and ra- installations? ther excited, he yelled to Ger- It could be that a sudden ald. “It feels like a big black | large scale of growth in popu bass’ - - - then he reeled some lation might make more park more and pulled some more ing meters pay off in the rev and after a little more tugging | €nue department. Should that he discovered - . he had! occur there will be time ther hooked the sweater he was [OF considering more meters wearing at the time on his line Any discussion of parking — — — Don’t ask me how? | should take recognizanc of a fact often overlookad Here's a poem sent Parking meters remain a form No gal will run for President. As long as we're alive; You never met one who'd admit, She's over thirty-five. of taxation. It's a question of whether the public wants to pay the tax in penny and nick- le and dime driblets or through regular channels. To b2 remem a bered also is the fact that un- til the meters are paid for half of every penny, nickle and dime deposited goes outside the An owener of a local automo- bile garage was observed to jump in the air with joy and to yell, “Hooray, Hooray!” with unmistakable fervor “What's up?” one of the me- chanics asked. “Remember last year when my wife was operated on” “Yes? “Well,” cried the garage pro- prietor, “the Surgeon who ovper- | ated on her has just brought his auto in for an overhaul.” borough to the firm that manu factures the meters. It is to be hoped that bor- ough will consider fully the possibility that the costs of in- stalling more meters may fai DOCTOR PLAYS BRIDGE IN TOURNAMENT Dr. David Schlosser, East Main Street, Mount Joy, was one ‘of six county bridge play- ers to participate in the Key- Any man who thinks “E” the predominant letter in the English alphabet, doesn’t listen 10 his wife very closely. Here's a modern fable: Once upon a time a teen-age boy asked his father for the keys to the garage and came out with the lawnmower. er, who formerly lived in town; town; Donald McCollough, Ste- | A WISE OWL’ ) den, Lancaster. ha i. 3. How long will it take to] The Rev. Deck Is of vour weeks salary; how do method to produce the needed | 'Reappointed Here exceed the benefits to be deriv- | stone Duplicate Bridge Region-| als over the weekend in the] Yorktowne Hotel, York. The] | other five were Earl Kochenau-| were rated outstanding, excel-| Dr. T. M. Thompson, Elizabeth. + Compete In State Music Finals This weeked the girls trio and tenor soloist of the Done- gal High School will compete in the state music and forensic finals The trio, consistisg of Ruth Drescher, Alma Smith and Barbara Martin received a| : Information class winners superior rating at the district contest. David Weidman, tenor solo- ist, will be accompanied oy Barbara Thome According to the stationing committee report of the East Pennsylvania Conference of the { Evangelical Cong. Church that was issued April 24, the Rev Q. A. Deck, was re-appointed to the Mount Joy church Rev. Devk will begin hig sixth year at the local paste Having formerly preached in the western conference he changed to the eastern confer ence of which the Mount Joy church is a member. Four pas toral changes in the denomo- nation were announced ® Neighborhood Plans May Meeting The Mount Joy-Florin Girl Scout Neighborhood May meet ing will be held next Monday evening in the St Mark's E.U.B. | Church. All leaders, assistant leaders and adult Scout work- | ers are asked to attend the meeting. To be voted on will] be the suggested change in the] type of county council. A vote for a change would mean that cach neighborhood would have a representative included on the | council. Also to be discussed! in will be the day camp planned for June Ambulance Takes Two |° Trips Last Week The Mount Joy Community ambulance made two trips to the Lancaster General Hospital last week. Tuesday, April 19,1 Mrs. Anna Frank, East Main Street, Mt. Joy, was transport- ed to the hospital by drivers) George Copenhaver and John L. Schroll Thursday, April 21, Michael Showalter, Donegal Springs Road, was taken to the hospital by drivers Christ Charles and John Myers - PATROLMEN ARE RATED EXCELLENT IN PARADE Mount Joy Elementary school patrolmen received an ‘‘excel-| lent” rating in the Lancaster County School Safety Patrol | parade Saturday. Escorted by | the new Mount Joy Elementary | School band in red and white | cadet uniforms, the patrolmen | marched in step each carrying an American flag. Charles Heaps, principal, and Mrs. Geo. | music : instructor, were} in charge: Certificates will be! awarded to. all the groups who | lent or good. The first Oxford and Cam- | wart Gourley and Martin Har- | bridge boat race was held at] Henley in 1829. in 1054. nearly two million] GROUP iS SELLING PURSES | casualties were recorded for mo- Summer pocketbooks are be- We Plan— . Troop Committee : } tor vehicle accidents ing sold by the JoyCees of Mt. and Build First Indian Re-organizes In Florin Ralph Oberholtzer was clect- ed chairman of the Scout Joop committee & ‘Ceremony Held ~ At Pack Meet advanced to | ESL TIE) LNG) Two boys were rank of Wolf and also com Joy. They are handmade by wo- dren's size. re Thirty-nine percent of the, deaths and 35 per cent of the in- | {D e P e n d ab 1 e dents last year occurred on Sat- | | quireme nts it was announced at ro: Paul Hess, Clarence | the April ( Calo Patle meeting on r and Michael Geltmach- | er pad both and | Wittle completed his Bear re- | Florin troop will con- , feathers are presented in | the ceremony to be worn in the been completed for head dress upon completion of | next Saturday. | New and Used Gas Ranges juries due to motor vehicle acei- = § men in Kentucky. Two sizes are | Repair and Remodel offered; women’s size and chil ALL KINDS OF BUILDINGS co LEEDOM & FINK BOX 222 ELIZABETHTOWN Phone Elizabethtown 7-6277 RS urdays and Sundays. 3 : Gas Service EE M. Ressler AWNINGS 27 W. Main St, MOUNTVILLE MADE NOW PHONE 5-5301 of Top Quality Material ‘WM. K. RESSLER PATIO AWNINGS A SPECIALTY! FLORIN, PA. MT. JOY 3-5731 Haldeman’s Upholstering & Awning Co. 11th & SPRUCE STREETS COLUMBIA, PA. 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