THE BULLETIN. Mount Joy. Po. | THE BULLETIN ( Thursday, November 24 2! Published every Thursday at 11 East Main Street, Mount Joy. Lancaster County, Pa Larmon D. Smith, Publisher | John E. Schroll, Editor and Publisher, 1901-1952 Subscription Rate $2.50 per vear by Mail Advertising rates upon request. Entered at the postoffice at Mount Joy, Pa., as second-class { mail under the Act of March 3, 1879. | Member, paper Publishers’ The Pennsylvania Pennsylvania News- Association. BY A WISE OWL OWL LAFFS farmer's clock der Story Harrisburg Governor Lea unquestionably is destined A Back Run from the animal al Nore had suddenly ceased to func- to hear more HW a + kingdom in Pennsylvania tion. So he and his wife came] ; : { t For that matter he may well ‘al jeweler in town to i 10.9 local jeweler hear quite vehemently from get a new one.’ There were athe pop-animal kingdom of this lot to pick from, but a cuckoo|gqir state. clock fascinated the farmer. He In fact there is no telling though n syns fun 30 watch just where it all may end but the little bird pop out and tell this Is.the of all the the hour. Bul his Wife was re- barking and yaping now being | Juctant to buy H. theard in kennels throughout! “It's a nice clock,” she ad- {he land: mitted, “but just what would! Late last week at his press we feed the bird?” conference, he was discussing © =o ! with reporters the technology behind the defeat of his now- | Wishing to do the right thing, | famous classified income tax the motorist, stopped the carjgome three months ago started out in searc f the : | and started out in search of the; tie was underscoring the farmer whose rooster he had . a2 : point that it wasnt just Opposi-| hit, near Mastersonville if! ; tion to the income tax itse After finding the owner, the| hat smaked down the cipsined) motorist explained how he had | pan, but the opposition of killed the rooster with his aus many different groups of tax- to and said he was willing to} payers that would be afiected,| replace him. | such as people relying in divi-| ‘Hmmmmm,” said the witty rents, interest and royal- farmer, “Well. let's hear you|ty, utilities - and to use the row” g * [Governor's own words - “it hit] oo a lot of people with that pro- | gram. | Think how safe it would be] And this was the Governor's, if motorists approached school|sentence: buildings as slowly as they did] “What you do, you stir up all} the first day they ever attended) the animals.” school. We're uncertain at this point] ° | whether Governor Leader {meant that some of the animals] his York County farm had] A tired-looking husband dropped Newtown | on into our of-|become aroused - for some rea- fice last Saturday and pointed Son - over the tax plan, or out that women have two en-| Whether he was inferring that! tirely different kinds of min- | those who dared to oppose the utes. “There's the regular sixty tax plan were a bunch of ani- second minute,” he explained, mals. “and then there's the more Supposedly that of course can common “just-wait-a-minute’ | Pe left largely to conjecture - type.” 3 and there a few people bet- ter equipped to indulge in con- eo jecture of this nature than poli-! Another thing the married themselves. man remembers at this time of we should insrpose here; » ic : and / ; z year is that the first fall wrap) hd now that pis 1s pat was a fig leaf. question of : mis-understanding la quote. It will be found in the o =» written transcript of the press 3 ; conference Here's a poem we received Well hit] = on p ell anyway, with e anu- that was postmarked from Flor-| : A ty wie many in: facturers. excise tax the ad- : : {ministration has no . se My health is good, my vision| § now proposed ine and currently is in the process ud : | of being chewed up in the g- My wife is worth a diamond |, Latur > tH i 1 the Leg {islature, the ‘‘animal’ wails, or mine: os ae ig wails, ol ee > . € protests trom those aftecte Tis true I have some griefs| = : ose affected J) this levy should be considerably {inasmuch as new proposal, and fears But nothing beers. confined I can’t drown Pennsylvan- in| 3 fewer {iasn will be hit - directly that ° ® ° | is. { Or, as the Governor said i 5 s S n Philosopher Enck says: “The. . . $ ; 5a; speaking of the excise tax only thing wrong with the dol-| <yere - ere, I hope, we will suc- lar that used to buy three times reed i ing ceed in getting ourselves con- as much was that you didn't! fined to a smaller ar 1 a s I area « Je in Janel c area and we {won't have everybody beating | ; jour brains out.” (Again we interpose the This is the time of year thought that this cannot be when evening gowns show construed as a mis-quote at the where bathings suits left off. conference - for as in the case eo of the previous quote, this has been lifted from the press con- And another thought which | ference transcript.) just flipped through the old | Unquestionably with this noggin is that the man of the newest tax proposal opposition hour is the guy who makes ev-|from throughout the state - ery minute of the day count. [from an individual or personal "oe standpoint should be almost nil We just read that statisticians! The tax is not being levied find that nine out of ten wom-!directly on the masses, although en are knock-kneed . and |it is a “hidden” tax - and there-! for years we've been thinking|fore opposition will be limited] that statisticians never had any. | for the most part to manufact-' fun. | urers. And although Republic ans controlling the Senate keep oo a close ear to this group, it is Carl Germer was explaining| doubtful if it will be sufficient] to the fellows up at Chets that|to kill the tax. “Middle Age is when you don’t mt ff care where you go. just so you PRINT 1000 ELVELOPES are home by 9 p.m. | Like Last Time. Co.» Got A Sample? | Did you hear about the screw- | ball who went into the Lincoln and ordered three scoops of! different colored ice cream on | his mince pie and hoped he | would dream in colors. i Phone Us for Your PRINTING J A WISE OWL oh i ob ae “ aa Hard To Convince Procedure For Fire Police When Directing Gig « At Fires—Emergencie Control of pedestrians is as much a responsibility of the point control officer as is directing vehicular move- ment. Pedestrians have rights which must be upheld and responsibilities which they must observe. At iIntersec- tions where there are heavy pedestrian movements con- gestion results when pedes- trians interfere with motor vehicle movement. Pedes- trians often cross against traffic, surge into the street while waiting for a signal or cross in places other than at crosswalks, Interference wilh pedestrian movement results when turning vehicles al tempt to complete a turn through a stream of pedes- trians in the crosswalk mov- ing on the “Go” signal To deal with this problem the point control officer must first pedestrian obed 1ence to Pedestrian discouraged obtain control directions violations must be Barriers can be used to restrict some undes irable pedestrian movements. Other such as engineering devices, safety islands, cross- ( { 4 from the center of walks. and “walk” signals are helpful. However, still must be placed upon voluntary obedience on the part of pedestrians. To improve this many education- much reliance al means are used. Police cars equippéd with public * address speakers can be used pedestrians and the correct to caution instruct them in use of the streets The police officer at the contral ped® intersection can estrians by signalling them when and where to walk, He control pedestrians the inter- section at first. He must build up voluntary pedestrian by taking a crosswalks. To obtain voluntary pedestrian | obedience the officer convince pedestrians that he cannot obedience posi - tion in the must is upholding their rights as well as requiring them to ob- serve regulations. He must therefore direct vehicle op- erators to yield the right-of way to pedestrians who are crossing The offi- cer's rnanner is important. He must be friendly but firm properly Hand signal to designate turning movement. (Illustration 3) Approach of Emergency Vehicle an emergency intersection provide an passage When vehic- 12 approaches an the officer should uninterrupted safe through the the direction the driver es to go. To do this the offic er should determine the type of vehicle and the direc- tion from which it is coming. He should prevent all traffic from entering the intersection intersection in wish- first except that which must be moved to clear a safe pas- sage for the emergency veh- icle, If the emergency vehicle is following a pre-arranged route such as a fire truck route or an ambulance route to a hospital, the officer knows the direction which the vehicle will take in leav- ing the intersection. If he does not know he should try to clear all the exits for the ! safe passage of the vehicle. He ing der for an car. The officer for a from tor of the le as to which wishes to go at The officer and must provide more space for an aerial ambulance or police signal emergency direction he tion. rect curious pedestrians to safety. He should watch for more one emergency vehicle hold traffic until he tain another is closely. not If two emergency approach from different rections, priority given to one and the should bé slowed or as necessary. If there doubt in the officer's both vehicles should be slow- ed or stopped. The officer must keep calm, make quick decisions and give deliberate directions. is any TELL’EM: SELL’EM THROUGH THESE AD COLUMNS J § furn- lad- truck making a run then should watch the opera- vehic- the intersec- should di- confused than and is cer- following vehicles di- should be other halted mind, ' BENEFITS AVAILABLE TO THOSE 65 WITH ' LOW EARNINGS | Persons past age 65 who have | sufficient coverage to be eligib- AT CARD PARTY Earl Catherine first prize playing pinochle at the | turkey card party sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary won [A AWARD PRIZES | | le for old-age insurance bene-| night Other prize | fits, but have not filed applica-|{ winners were Mrs. Clarence tion for benefits because they Witmer. James Zink, R. J. Far- | are still working, were remind- mer, Mrs. Edith Boltz, J. Haus- {ed today by M.S. Gleaton, | er, Mary K. Kelly and Edythe | manager of the social security Myers, pinochle and Mrs, John | office at 1024 Harrisburg Ave,| Nissley, bridge. Door prizes Wi of it ni si} 955 | | that if their earnings in 1955| were awarded to Grace Benner are sufficiently low they may | and Mrs. Bessie Snyder and receive full or partial benefits’ chance-off turkeys were award- { for the year. Ba to Mr. Catherine, Pauline “We are inclined to believe,” |] a and Agnes Houseal. Mr. Gleaton said, “that there oun een are people who could receive | declared. benefits for 1955 who have so| January, 1956, is the latest far not taken advantage of their | time at which a person can file rights, because of misunder- | an application which could | standing or confusion as to the make him entitled to benefits new retirement test in the law” for the full year of 1955. ‘In brief, an individual who|{ Persons who do not earn ov- was past 65 years of age the, er $2080 in 1955, and who meet | entire year of 1955, and who! the other conditions for eligibi- has had sufficient covered em-| lity may secure further infor- ployment or self-employment mation and assistance in filing can! entire earnings { to be eligible for benefits | receive benefits for the 1955 if his total { for the year do exceed 181,200.00. He can receive par-' | tial benefits if his total earnings {do not exceed $1,080,00 even though he works throughout {the entire year.” | | In the case of self-employed | person, the profit from the trade’ or business is what is considered application for benefits, by con- tacting the Social Security Ad- ministration office at 1024 Har-| Avenue. vear not risburg net Commenorating “earnings.” harvest “Regardless of the amount of | his earnings in certain months i 4 ; the Pilgrims we give of the year, a beneficiary can get benefit payments for those thanks for the blessing months in which he neither | earns more than $80 in wages of Loving in this country nor renders substantial services today. and take this | in self-employment,” Gleaton nies | opportunity to our friends KOUNTRY KITCHEN PHONE ROUTE 230 hilarious and informative OPEN SUNDAYS (SEE PAGE FOUR) | celebration of deep appreciation for the loyalty of our and ne E-TOWN the first express ighbors, T-3494 ol We feature. . . 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