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Did you know “Clayt”
comer was a ‘truck farmer” -
- = = = Neither did 1! - - Last!
week he was telling some of
his friends that his cantaloupes
aren't doing too good. - - -
Being true friends, and feeling
sorry for Clayt, one of the boys
purchased a basket of extra
large cantaloupes from a near-|
by fruit stand and when Clayt
went away the following night,
he stole into Clayt's truck
patch and distributed the can-|
THE BULLETIN, Mount Joy. Pe. |
Thursday. August 11 2

| Editor and Publisher,
| Subscription
| Mount
| mail under the Act of March 3,
1879.
| Member,
"LEGISLATIVE
BY A WISE OWL poyND-UP
New-
THE BULLETIN
Published every Thursday at 11
East Main Street, Mount Joy.
Lancaster County, Pa.
Larmon D. Smith, Publisher
John E. Schroll,
1901-1952
Rate $2.50 per
year by Mail
| Advertising rates upon request.
postoffice at
as second-class
Entered at the
Joy, Pa.,
Pennsylvania News-
paper Publishers’ Association.

The past week
and grievious
administra
Harrisburg
has been a bitter
legislative week of
tion forces who after four
months of hard work saw their
pet classified income tax bill
battered down to defeat by the
solid fist of the Republican ma-
jority in the State Senate.
For Democratic
meant the end of
wise. Down the
drain went their favored key-
stone to the administration's fis-
cal program.
the road tax-
strategists it
legislative]

taloupes he bought through-
out the field - - - - - - But, |
somehow or other Russ Kram-|
er, who knew all about it,
“goofed”, thinking Clayt had| gow. Senate opposition on the
already discovered the canta- | income tax bill clearly
loupes, he gave the whole joke| strated that a compromise tax|
|
From this point forward any
exclusixe Democratic tax
dream is definitely out the win-

away. program agreeable this time to|
I Republicans as well as Demo-
To the woman the per- | crats is now a necessity. 5
fect husband is one who thinks | Co-incidentally Republican
he has a perfect wife. | | Senators commenting following
| Governor Leader’s last minute
| surprise appearance before the
I met a local man coming]
out Delta Street last evening, | | Senate in a plea for suppart of
and séeing his hands full of | his income tax plan, in the
soot, I asked him what hap-| main expressed the opinion that
pened. | his personal appe arance at sue 2
He told me he Just came| a late date seemingly solidifiec
GOP resentment and opposition]
from the railroad station where |
proposed levy.
he put his wife on a train to |
visit with her relatives.
“But why the dirty hands,”
asked. And he explained:
patted the engine.”
to the
The strict party line
1 26 Republicans voting
«1| the plan ito 23 Democrats vot
| ing in favor of it certainly ap
eared to substitute this con-
tention in many respects.
Members of the
are now off on a recess
against

Boy (returning from school):
: sil Legislature
“I larned to write, today, maw” |
until
Maw: “What have you larned | i
to write, son?” the week of August 29, the Sen
Son: “Don’t know vel. Ain’ ate remaining in haphazard
Rd Wil 1 . .
| session the early part of the
larned to read.” | wins
| week to clean up the “kill” on
| the deflated income tax propos-|
al advanced by the Governor.
Before the recess a few
Last Thursday evening the
local Fire Company meeting
haul barely Tera when a) fluttered into the legislative
ire alarm sounded. - - - - including. measures that
active smoke eaters all jumped would:
to their feet and rushed thru
Amend the Stare Banking
Code to further regulate the es-
tablishment of banks:
Make the Licutenant-Govern-
or a member
the doors that led to the cngine
room - - - - all but “Ronnie”
@arlin, - - - - he dashed thru]
the wrong dobr and found him-
branch
of the State

self all alone in the men’s rest! council of Civil Defense;
room! Permit the Auditor (zeneral
—— | and the State Treasurer to suc-
“Boog’ Neiss was telling his ceed themselves in office:
golf partners “Duke” and Prohibit the operation of col
“Len” about a man from up-| Jection agencies by constable
state, who beat his:wife to] or deputy con:tab!
death with a golf club. He had Change the procedure on pro-
hardly finished the story when pate of wills probated - ouiside
“Duke” asked: ‘How many] of
strokes?”
|
Pennsylvania;
Provide for the licen
registration of landsc
tects;
Set up an apprepriation for
the repair of buildings damaged
1
ana

ape archi
H you happened to see “Bud”
Carpenter strolling down Main
Street Monday morning around |

five o'clock, don’t become | by mine subsidence;
alarmed, he's all right. It was Eliminate school bus slop
just a little oversight on his] signs;
part, when he looked at the| Require the equipping of cer
clock that morning. | tin passenger vehicles with
| seat belt attachments:
For over a week, “Mii | Provide for Commonwealth
Mateer was as anxious as the ownership of patents ale matters
local kids - - - she could | developed in state institutions.
hardly wait for picnic day - - me oi
- - - she had planned on going
to the picnic and to spend the Dealers Ationd
best part of the day in the |
bathing pool. - - - - - - Being | Pilgrimage Tour
Mrs. John Germer,
one of the first to arrive at|
Rocky Springs, “Mil” headed | manager; and Miss Kitty
for the pool and purchased her| tle, dealer in Mrs. Germer’s Un-
admission ticket. - - - - Not| it, attended a Pilgrimage tour
five minutes later, she was|to Westfield, Mass. last week. |
back at the entrance gate. The| A visit to the Stanley factory
ticket seller asked her if she| was the highlight of the
1
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five-
|
|
had forgotten her towels? “Mil” | day trip for the two along with
rather disgusted, replied: “Tow-| other dealers ofe the district. |
els! It's worse than that, I for-| The troup also included a trip
got my bathing suit” - - - So! to Stanley Park, a dance at the
“Mil” sat down on a bench and| Gimbel Hotel and
watched the folks doing what| the dealers.
she had planned for a week, fo] Mrs. John Germer
do. .s:| gold cup for
| in the recent contest.
A WISE OWL| presented with her
ret ford sme | the president of the company,
CHICKEN CORN SOUP SALE! Katherine O'Brian. All the
| “gold cuppers” were honored
FRIDAY, AUGUST 12 | at a special table at the award
The Ladies Bible Class of the| banquet. Contests are held in
Trinity Evangelical Congrega-| March, May, August and Nov- |
tional Church will hold a home-| émber. To date, Mrs. Germer
made chicken corn soup sale | has won twelve gold cups.
in the church annex on Friday, | mere. rere |
August 12, beginning at 4 p.m.| When in need of Printing. (any- |
Bring your own containers, ! thing) kindly remember the Bulletin
received a
outstanding
She
sales

demon-
vote of]
bills
a dealers’ |
Wit-!
classes for
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was |
award by
The Pennsylvania Story:
Budget Financing Remains
Problem Of Administration
By MASON
Pennsylvania News Service
Harrisburg Pennsylvania's
lawmakers are home this week
and for the next two weeks in
a three weeks legislative
not so served as it is
recess
much de
| appropriate.
We say this because in ‘the
seven months they have been
busy climbing up and down
each other's irame and leaping
DENISON
income
a squawk as they
BERRIER REUNION
The
fourteenth annual reun-
Games were played and prizes
awarded the winners. A snort
devotional program was held
substitute for the now defeated! by Mrs. Norman Mateer and
conceived.
as this the
for administration forces to for-| farthest was Mr. and Mrs. John
| get their bull-headed political| Berrier, Jr. The couple most
dignity and ask Republicans to recently married was Mr. aud]
at each other's throat they have
accomplished virtually nothing.
From a poltician’s stand-!
point of course this is not true
From a disinterested
er’'s standpoint it is.
observ
Unalterable is the fact that
last week’s defeat in the Sen
ate of the tax
proposed by the administration
of Governor Leader places the
Mr. Lead-
record-break-
classtiied income
problem of
er's $1.8
ing budget right
was in January
Who is to blame
| a highly moot point and
| which can be debated around
the barrel for
| months on end.
However a few
stand out
| worth nothing.
In the first place,
under the leadership of Gover-
| nor Leader are at the
Pennsylvania. The
administra-
billion
back whre it
- no solution
is of course
one
village cracker
saiient facts
which are certainly
Democrats
in power
moment In
problem of solving
tive ills is the baby they ask-
ed the voters last fall to
thrust in their laps.
The step-child is their's now
and no amount of political
doubletalk can erase this fact,
although it has been desperate-
ly tried by the present adminis-
tration time after time. It just
won't work.
Illustrating this is the fact
that administration
forces
repeatedly
complained to the
rooftops of both the
| Senate that if Republicans did
not like the proposed
tax and were determined to de-
feat it—which they did by vir-
tue of their two-vote majority
in the Senate—then they
come up with their
have
House and
income
should
own tax
progran.
The point that hould be
made crystal clear and as a
| newspaperman it means nothing
to us whether Republcans or
Democrats are sitting on the
that it
responsibility of the
gubernatorial throne. is
is the sole
| administration in
time (at the moment it
Democrats)
out by their
power at the
pens to be to work
work it out with them. They| Mrs. Dale Rice. The couple
may have to crawl but with the| married th> longest was Mr.
GQP wall of granite in the| and Mrs. James Berrier.
Senate they certainly realize The following officers were
now there is no alternative. elected. Gordon Berrier, proesi-
@ mm dent; Gerald Berrier, Vice pres-
CHICKEN BARBEQUE ident; Mrs. George Jerrier, |
arti MeOv i eas -
AT SALUNGA AUG 20 ry Marks Veisoy, tens
held by the Salunga Fire Com- R A GUTSHALL
pany Saturday, August 20. The ° ° :
affair will be held from 4 to 8 ‘
p. m. at the firehouse. GENERAL
———
of Sy CONTRACTOR
DIME-A-DIP SUPPER
(
| Mrs. Calvin Herr.
The oldest
was Mrs. Alice
voungest was
The couple
churlish
have
tax which is as
could rerson present
: ‘herv 1
In a tough-nut situation such Cheryl Brandt.
only alternative is
A chicken barbeque will be

CEMENT PAVING
CEMENT CURBING
No Job Too Small
The Young Adult class of the
Methodist Church will sponsor

a Dime-a-Dip supper at the No Job Too Large
church on Saturday, August 20, 116 W. High St., MAYTOWN
from 5 to 7 p. m. Featured will Call Marietta 6-9179
be home-made ice
cream

It Costs No More
To Rent The Best
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CONVERSION
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HEAT Sales & Scrvice
BOX 306, LANDISVILLE, PA. PHONE 8122
ion of the Berrier family was
held Sunday, August 7, at the
Florin ire Company hall
Shubach and the
which traveled the
31-tfe

hap-
own means the ul-|
.
timate tax program for the
state. .
In 1951 when Republicans)
then in power were beating!
each other over the head to
move the head to move thru!
the income tax, not a finger of |
help was lifted from the Dem-
ocratic side of either hous
The tax failed but the then R
publican administra
up with a
ion can
ownu—-hodge-podge to be sure
In 1953 the same siory
repeated when in a fit and
Republicans fought
lizzy
led over the
lax program of their
5
4
|
was |
ana scramls-)
now on
sales tax
1 1 . |
the books—while their deme-|
cratic colleagues sat on the!
sidelines and lifted nary a .ng-|
i
er in assistance
they
driver’s secat-
it.”
To ke trite
is on the
| ocrats are sev
you worry
about it, the
other
shoe
foot now.
aming
| Republicans have
Fraditionally |
chorused: ‘‘vou’re in the]
|
about
Dem-!
|
because
offered no:

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