FLORIN CITIZENS COMMITTEE REORGANIZES The Mount Joy j= BULLETIN Enrollment Figures Are Released From Donegal Joint School System School opened in the area Wednesday with 2301 chil- dren reporting the first day. This total comprises the stu- dents attending the Donegal High School and the elemen- tary schools in Mount Joy, ® existing elementary The Lancaster Automobile Club’s annual appeal to mo- torists to take special precau- tions when driving near schools is underway. State Police, local police and the school authorities are co-op- erating. The theme of the campaign is SCHOOL'S OPEN — Drive CAREFULLY. Colorful post- ers bearing this message have been placed in conspicuous spots throughout the county. Twelve hundred posters, weatherized for outdoor dis- play, have been erected. In addition, bumper strips for cars, trucks and busses have been distributed. In Lancaster the city police have placed several hundred of the posters on poles. trees and other vantage points in the vicinity of schools and elsewhere. In Mt. Joy and the various other communi- ties local police and school officials have placed the pos- ters at spots that will catch tiie attention of ‘motorists. Pennsylvania State Police have assisted in distribution of the posters and bumper strips. Things that motorists being asked to do are:- 1. Scrupulously obey speed limits near schools. 2. Be extra alert for chil- dren crossing streets at un- expected places. 3. Co-operate with School Safety Patrol and girls. 4. Be especially when operating a vehicle near school busses. Pennsyl- vania law requires motorists to stop for a school bus load- ing or unloading children. rem (fe Rotary Club Has Voice Demonstration Mount Joy Rotary club Tuesday noon witnessed an interesting demonstration on the impressions = created by various voice types. Mrs. Nancy Klinefelter, service representative for the Lebanon office of the Bell Telephone Company, played a tape recording of various voice types and then showed drawings of the kinds of per- sons the various voices repre- sented. Several Rotary members then were asked to talk into a telephone and their voices were recorded andy played back. Mrs. Klinefelter was sisted by Norman Rowe. rm COMING EVENTS PLANNED BY SPORTSMEN'S CLUB The Milton Grove Svorts- mens Club held their month- ly meeting Friday evening, August 31. After the regular business at hand was taken care of. plans were discussed for holding shooting matches during the Fall months. The ldates arrived at by the mem- bers of the club and commit- itee are Sent. 21, Oct. 12 and Nov. 16. Being no further business, the meeting was ad- journed. are the boys careful as- To Report New ‘Families Call MJ 3-9763 Mount Joy Township, East Donegal Township and Mari- etta Borough. A total of 858 students re- ported to the Donegal High School the first day. Of these a = m= po’ pe”, - wip FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR, NO. 12 MOUNT JOY, PA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1956 SEVEN CENTS PER COPY Ben Staley Is Named Chairman A reorganization meeting was held for the Citizens Committee of Florin. Two new members were appoint- ed to the committee and an election of officers was held. The two new Florin men 530 were enrolled in the jun- ior high school and 328 in the senior high school. This year there are five sections of the .seventh grade, six in the eighth, five in ninth; four in tenth; and three in elev- enth and twelfth grades. The girls outnumbered the boys in the school with 438 girls enrolled and 420 boys. The senior class has 99 mem- bers; juniors, 96; sophomores 133; freshmen, 172; eighth grade, 181; and seventh grade 178. A total of 1443 students was reported from the seven schools the Sloan's Pharmacy. in the combined area. Of renovations and alterations these, 698 are boys and 745 Gi) going in the store, are girls. In the Washington School, Florin, with grades the soda counter from kindergarten through 3, and Wednesday to make way for there are 121 students; Flor- new services to be offered by Pharmacy Announces Changes A “landmark” of Mount on fountain, stools were removed in, north side, kindergarten through 5, 100 students; Mil- ton Grove sehool 1-3, 34 and the other Milton Grove school of grades 4-6, 25. In the Maytown element- ary school, there are 441 pu- pils in grades kindergarten through grade 6. (A total of 95 students are enrolled in the fourth grade in this one school.) In Mount Joy Bor- ough the total for grades kin- dergarten through six is 391 and for the same grades in Marietta Borough, the total is 331 students. The local el- ementary school has 197 boys enrolled and 194 girls.’ rr (fe et the store. One new the feature of store will be self-service cigar department. Other chan- ges will include the expan- sion of the greeting card de- partment, enlarging of the camera department and a new wrapping counter. The new display counters will be open in order that merchan- dise throughout the entire counter may be displayed. The space will also be used to house additional drugs. Although the soda fountain has been removed, the phar- macy will continue to carry a full line of packaged Dolly Madison ice cream. The re- modeling will also include new flooring and new paint- ed walls. Following the two- week remodeling period, Walter Sloan, owner, will stage a remodeling sale. The pharmacy was closed for one day, from Wednesday noon until Thursday noon, for the removal of the foun- tain equipment but other renovations will be conduct- ed after store hours. —® AMBULANCE CALLED TO TAKE 3 TRIPS Three trips were taken last week by the local communi- ty ambulance. Friday, Aug- ust 31, William Laughman, Lumber Street, was taken to the Lancaster General Hos- the sale of some of his paint- pital by drivers Marlin and ings, he has earned a small a- Ray Myers. The same day, mount of money. Linneaus Edwin Swanson, 236 Mariet- Longenecker, local painter, ta Ave. was taken to the has given Mr. Laughman sev- Lancaster General . Hospital eral lessons and says that the by the same two drivers and new artist is doing quite well Mrs. James Hostetter, nurse. His favorite reading is that Soot. 1. oy fare of Sports articles and stories, taken to the St. Josephs Hos- After many cast changes, ita) by drivers Robert Hoff- last Friday, he was again ta- aster and Samuel Dock. ken to the Lancaster General ie Bashan Hospital and had thought » that the cast would be taken AD GETS RESULTS, off. Again, it was given an- BUT WRONG NUMBER other delay. (Editor'sNote — Let's re- IS GIVEN Re ir on The Bullet'n many times i 4 ’ has pointed with pride to the effectiveness of its classified a gift or a visit!) ad section. — as se ere was an ad, Sportsmen Issue Th eck Pon a as Annual Report clerk, also some typing and office work. Steady employ- “Alaska”, a film, shown at the regular meeting of the ment. Call MJ 3-6001.” The ad got results all right ac . 3-6001 re- Mount Joy Sportsmen Asso- In fact, Phone No. 3-6001 re ciation next Monday, Sept- tember 10, in the firehouse. ceived some 25 calls.’ The hitch is that it was the wrong Mr. Snavely will show the Mr. Armstrong film. number. 3-6001 is the num- ber for Ruhl's Flowers and rete ... the ad was placed by Way's (The association released is Appiiances, so Ruhl's got the : : : answers. IS be gost week, gh The ad taker is still mysti- SE {he a of two fied as to how the error came ds with bass and other about, but has corrected the ni ass Joy Com- number for this week. It is pany pond north East Main MJ 3-3622. Street and the Bernhard Pond in Florin. These ponds will open June 1957 and will be available to all children of the two communities un- der sixteen years of age. Pro- viding the fish propogate, the ponds will be open to the public in 1958. The. group is also raising 10,000 trout at the present time which are approximately four inches long. Plans are also being form- ulated for the newly purchas- ed sports farm, the farm pur- chased recently located north near the Cove. a Laughman To Have Birthday William Laughman, Lum- ber Street, will celebrate his birthday Sunday, Sept. 9th. Mr. Laughman has been hos- pitalized and confined to his home for the past two years following a fall from a roof on which he was working as a carpenter. Sept. 25, it will be two years that Mr. Laugh- man has been encased in a body cast from the waist to and including one leg. Much of his past two years has been spent in reading and recently, he added paint- ing to his activities. Though LOCAL BOY SHOWS RESERVE CHAMPION C. Kenneth Young, Mt. Jov R1, showed a purebred Guernsey to the reserve championship of the first an- nual Southeastern Region Fu- ture Farmers of America Dairy Show last Friday. His reserve champion was Hargood’s Noble Brenda, a junior yearling that also won the local boy top honors in her class at the Pennsylvania Dutch Days Dairy Show Hershey two weeks ago. To Be Issued At High School Wilbur Beahm, supervising principal of the Donegal Ar- ea Joint School System, an- Joy disappeared this week at nounces changes in the issu- With ing of working permits. Here- Bishop of tofore, farm and domestic permits, general employment certificates and vacation cer- tificates were issued in the four areas. All permits will now be issued only at the Donegal High School. These permits will be issued by the guid- ance department of the school at the high school office. Hours for receiving permits will be from 8 a. m. until 3:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. According to the state de- partment, one major change is announced in the proced- ure in acquiring the permits They will be issued only with the personal application of the parents or guardian and the child. In other words, the parent or guardian must appear at the high school of- fice with the child in order to be issued any of the four types of permits. Red Feather Area Head Sam Bal<baugh, local mer- chant, has been named chair- man of the Northwestern Di- vision of the United Commu- nity Campaign for the 22 Red Feather Services of the Com- munity Chest and the Red Cross. He is a director of the Mt. Joy Rotary Club and president of the local Cham- ber of Commerce. John E Tyndall, Florin, co-chair- man. The United Community Campaign has set up 2 new county campaign divisions for the United Drive which be- has been divided into gins October 1st, 1956 The Northern Division in 1955 has. been divided into the Northwestern and North- eastern Division because it was difficult for one division chairman to supervise the campaign organization in the large area from Conoy to Caernarvon Township. The Northeastern County Division is headed by Rev. Haro'd F. Minnich, chairman, 510 Spruce Street, Denver, and Harry W. Mason, co- chairman, 100 South 8 Street, Akron ‘The Northwestern County Division is divided into three areas. Charles Reist, chair man, Mount Joy R2. and Ar- thur Wolgemuth, Mount Joy R1, are in charge of the Northwestern “A” Area, con- sisting of Conoy Township, East Donegal Township, West Donegal Township, and Mt. Joy Township. The Northwestern “B” Ar- ea, composed of East Hemp- field Township. East Peters burg. Land'sville, Rohrers town, and Rapho Township, is headed by Glenn Y. For- ney, chairman, 437 Donegal Springs Road. Mount Joy, and James Memminger, co- chairman, Mount Joy RI. The Northern Area of Eli- zabeth Township, Manheim Township, Penn Township, and Warwick Township is led by Brooke M. Baker, chair- man, 25 West Main Street, Lititz, and Emerson N. Roth- enberger, co-chairman, 119 Ferdinand Street, Manheim. msm ce eee. (ee ALTERATIONS COMPLETE Renovations have been completed in the Shatto Bar- ber Shop, East Main Street. The alterations include a new is vision in ceiling, new flooring and new wall paper. Series Of Renovations Sunday will be 100th An- bethtown Area High School niversary day for the Reich’s boys’ quartet. Evangelical Congregational The Rev. John E. Eckhart, Church. The Rev. J. A. Smith Pastor. will give the Scrip th Ev: oo ture lesson and prayer at : € vangelical both services. Congregational Church, will Throughout the years the speak at the morning service River Brethren and the Brin- “A Charge to Keep I ser or United Zion's Children and again in the eve- denominations continued to worship in the church, each being charged a small rental Special music will be pro- for the use of the building. vided by Miss Martha Roland Of course when the attempt chureh organist David Weld was made to merge the Ev- 1 ganisi, Day €1d- angelical Association and the man, vocalist, and the Eliza- United Evangelical Church, During 1938 the Grace Evan- : elical Cc cl i Magistrates Get of East A I New Motor Code Arrest Forms Reich’s Church became a charge, served by the same pastor. The same status ex- Harrisburg More than 500,000 new vehicle code vi- report forms on Have” ning. ists today. ees Very few changes in the interior or the exterior of the Reich's Church building were 7 made until 1940 when it un- have been mailed to magis- qerwent its first complete trate, alderman and justice renovation and remodeling of the peace in the Common- Program. At this time the church entrance was changed Cras and a new primary room and This required reporting yestibule were built, new proceedure puts teeth into pews and pulpit were instal- our Highway Safely Pro- Jed, and the entire interior of gram.” Secretary of Revenue {ho church remodeled at a Gerald A. Gleeson declared 5 of approximately $3,500. “as we will now be able to Appropriate Re-Opening and take action against every mo- Home-Coming services were torist who is arrested, con- conducted on Sunday, Feb. victed and fined for a viola- 95 1940. The 85th Anniver- tion of the Vehicle Code gy was observed the follow- whether the arrest is made jo" voar. In 1949 the church 5 a oo police officer Or a purchased a Wurlitzer organ, State Policeman. that was installed at a later Secretary Gleeson said the date. forms must be completed Up to this time the Reich’s monthly by the magistrate in was obligated reporting disposition of Ve-, vent a dwelling for sever- hicle Code violations for ar- al of the pastors to meet the rests made by all police of- heed of a parsonage. In 1950 ficers other than the Pennsyl- the property adjoining the rnin tate Police » latter vania State Police. The latter .hureh was purchased, and group has always filed arrest after extensive alterations, Pops with the Department additions, and renovation this ot hevenue. became the church parson- to age Since the existing ties of the church were en- tirely inadequate for the olation arrest wealth. is Prior this new statute the 4,043 active magistrates in the State were not requir- ed to outline the disposition of each and every case where growing congregation, the of- information has been filed ficials concluded that an ad- charging a violation of the ditional building was the Vehicle Code. The new re- pest way to relieve the con- port forms provide for all gested conditions. On Oct. 4, pertinent data regarding the 1953 ground was broken for violation. the new structure. This Edu- cational Unit - the one-story, L-shaped, brick annex of four rooms and basement, adjoin- ing the rear of the church, was then erected at a cost exceeding $22,000. This sec- tion is used for adult classes of the Sunday School, and the basement is furnished with equipment for the Be- ginners’ and the Primary De- partments. During 1955, the parsonage received interior renovation including the installation of a new oil-heating system. This summer there was plac- ed in the church as a mem- orial to the late Mr. and Mrs. (Turn to page 2) RETURNS HOME FROM OREGON VISIT facili- The reports must be sent to the Bureau of Highway Safety, Department of Rev- enue, no later than the 10th day of the following month, Clement J. Sipe, Acting Di- rector of the Bureau of High- way Safety has advised the magistrates. From the reports submitted by the magistrate, Sipe said, the Bureau of Highway Sa- fety will issue warnings or suspensions — in accordance with the Table of Offenses under the penalties system— to every motorist who is ar- rested and fined. SATURDAY NIGHT IS TEEN NIGHT Due to the splendid turn- out at the teen dance Friday : night a record dance will _ H. G. Haugstein, 125 North be held Saturday, Sept. 8 Barbara Street, returned to from 8 to 11. Please bring his home Saturday afternoon your records. Friday is foot- following a three-week stay ball night — So from now on With his son, John P., in the teen dances will be held Portland, Oregon. Mr. Haug- Saturday nights. stein made the trip to his Winners of special dances son's home by flying both to last Friday evening were: Oregon and home again. Roberta Marshall and Robert He commented on the bea- Koser, elimination dance; : Sandy Wittle and Duke Wea- Pear orchards in Oregon and land, spot dance; Loretta also enjoyed the climate. Schroll and Dave Halbleib, rT balloon dance. NEW STORE HOURS A cordial invitation is is- New store hours began for sued to all interested persons the Hess' Food Store, E. Main to drop in at the fire hall and S. Barbara Streets. Mon- during the dances to see what days, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, procedure of putting out fire two are included in a group a fine job is being done by and Thursdays, the hours Mrs. George Copenhauver for are 9 a. m. until 6 p.m. our benefit. Fridays, they are fom 8 a. Don’t forget to bring your m. until 9 p.m. from 8 to 11. until 8 p. m. Seeks Annexation To Borough Work Permits Reich's Church Undergoes Graduates From Paul Martin LanguageSchool Shows Map At Yale U. Airman Second Class Rich- ard Hallgren, son of Mr. an Mrs. Ragner Hallgren, Mari- etta Avenue, graduated from a special school at Yale Uni- versity last Wednesday. Air- man Hallgren completed the nine-month school of Chinese language and is now on leave in Mount Joy. Approximately sixty men were entered in the course and were assigned to various posts for duty. Airman Hall- gren will leave October to report to the Philippine Is- lands. Following a short per- iod in the islands, he will be sent to Formosa. Mr. and Mrs. Ragner Hall- gren, Jr. attended the grad- uation ceremony in Yale and following the exercises Air- man Hallgren returned to Mount Joy with his brother and sister-in-law. ® Donegal To Begin Footbal! Donegal High School will open the 1956 Football Sea- son with Elizabethtown High School at Elizabethtown, on Friday evening, game time 8:00 p. m. After two vears of prepar- ation, Donegal will be meet- ing their first foe on a full competitive basis. Coach Pe- ters, and Assistants and Gemberling, introduced the football program at the area school two years ago. and are expecting to field a team that will give a good account of themselves Friday evening. Probable starting line-up for Friday's game: Wealand, left end, Seger, left tackle, Neal, left guard, Livingston, center, Halbleib., right guard, Kramer, right tackle, Wolge- muth, right end, Gilliam, quarterback. Marshall, left halfback. Bradley. right half back, and Snyder. fullback Coach Peters indicated he mav switch the backfield a- round before game time. The following boys will also see action during the game: Ben der, center, Rice, DMcKain and Stoner. guards, Shige man and Thomas, tackles, Bradley and Groff, ends, Watkins. Bennett and Harn ish, in the back field. Donegal High School's band will perform at half time and a pep rally wi'l be held at the school Friday after noon. LIONS HEAR TALK ON utiful flowers and the many PUTTING OUT FIRES Captain Landus and Cap- tain Challen of the Lancaster County Firemen's Association were guest speakers at the Tuesday night meeting of the local Lions Club at Hostet- ter’s. They told about the in inflammable materials. Guests for the meeting were Ray Myers, local fire chief and Satur- and John Myers, assistant fire B. Schofield, records on Saturday, Sept. 8 days, they are from 8 a. m. chief. Lewis Bixler, president Street, and Everett S. Wise- was in charge of the meeting. Staley | named to the group are Jac- ob Stehman and Samuel Becker. Benjamin Staley was nam- ed chairman of the commit- tee; Park Shetter, vice chair- man: Elwood Forwood, sec- retary; Mr. Becker, assistant secretary; and Mr. Stehman, treasurer. This is a group that was organized a few years ago To Council for the purpose of discussing Paul Martin, Mount Joy R1 the possibility of having resented a plan for annexa- Florin and area annexed in- pre “%" to the borough of Mount Joy. tion of an area to the bor- pyplic meetings were held at meeting that time and progress was Monday made to a certain point in showed the plans. (il wap of At the re-organization meet- p ing, the group decided to go the area he wished to have .,, with the plans. Funds are annexed. It includes a sec- now necessary for the com- tion of land between Mount pletion of the next step ough at the regular of borough council Mr. Martin members a night. council month ough limits laid following tion of sewage work Bids Rejected Bids were opened for renovations and gal Springs leading previously which will be col- extension of Florin Avenue, make contributions by econ- next step will be the prepar- cers of the group. These ough council in the near fu- the drafting of an area map Sixteen street lights will 5, meeting will be mill to the new borough lim- the progress of the commit- Following a report of the Work will be started on $803.48 remains to be paid to tions have already volunteer- curb along North Barbara St. Work Continues walk extended into the ner for vehicles on the progress of work on Mount Joy Street is yet to struction. Council members work. Although citizens res- next regular meeting of the cil and work was started. im- tember 11, is a public meet- The latest development is Company. ward to the block between Read repaired. Action Was j5iq in the street. Previous that the bank on the east (orm sewer pipe line. also tabled until street com- author'ty members at the Park Neiss, chef of police, ka additional plans for the red traffic signals; three for 3 reukle Grand Openings one accident investigated. Saturday and Sunday, Sep- acquired former though no action has been ta- Mobile Homes. The trailer ture of the plot, council Street, and E. William Pontz bery was checked. tion just west of the boro a- ville Road has been complet- bile trailers. struction Commany completed week. On display will be five The street was up to a maximum of 51 feet OF FICE CLOSED (Turn to page 4) will be closed from Thurs- Joy and Florin along Done- which takes legal action. Ver- south to Marietta Avenue. In Jected at this time. Addition- Martin Avenue, Sunset Ave- {acting Mr. Stehman, treasur- ation of a petition which will funds will be used to draw ture. for presentation to the bor- be placed along East Main held in the near future. The its. These sixteen lights will parking meter fund the an- the next step in the near fu- the company. The street com- ©d their services. in front of the Robert Stoner set Qn Mount Joy Street Discussed Mount Joy Street in conjunc- be completed through the re- agreed to meet with borough ponded in person at the Aug- authority next Tuesday. The mediately to clear the street, ing and is held in the office the placing of a new water Warren Foley exoressed gigh and North Barbara Sts. tabled until the next meeting. tr, ples were caused by the side of Longenecker Road be Council members again ag- - mittee members may inspect meeting of the auth- reported seven arrests for the reckless driving; one for im- h=ving the current insnection Planned For New Action was also taken on newly ele- tember 8 and 9 are the grand school plot ken by the civic groups of sales company owned by Al- members had the weeds is located in the site of the Road Completed long Route 230. The company ed Given out in bids several Daily hours are from 9 a. the laying of the street from 1957 models. They range in the installa- in length. Models have from the The office of Dr. Newton day morning until Monday Road bal pledges had been made it he named four streets, an 35] residents are asked to nue and Glenn Avenue. His er or any of the other offi- be formally presented to bor- yp necessary petitions and Street Lights Ordered ough council. Street from the former cotton hu.) pe kept posted on be” 2500-watt lamps. tee. nouncement was made that ture. Carriers for the peti- mittee reported a change in a ga, ee proverty. Formerly, the side- creating an unnecessary cor- S A discussion was again held treet tion with the sewage con- cent sewage construction authority members at the ust meeting of Borough Coun- Tuesday night meeting, Sep- the work is still in progress. of the Gerberich-Payne Shoe nh 45h from Jacob Street west- his desire to have Lefever ap ow gas line is also being A request was also received breakage in an existing cut down. This action Was yaad to meet with borough the spot in question ority next Tuesday night to for drivers ignoring SERRE passing: five for not sticker: one for larceny and Trailer Company the killing of weeds on the mentary Al- opening days for the Donegal the town concerning the fu- dus Hannan. North Barbara checked and also the shrub- former Atlantic Service Sta- The extension of Spring- Will handle the Detroiter Mo- months ago. the Rosser Con- m. until 9 p. m. seven days a Birchland Avenue to the bor- size from 8-10 feet wide and construction one to three bedrooms. ree (= ne alterations Kendig, 62 East Main Street morning. ENLISTED IN MARINES Two local men enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps. The Physician On Call Sunday Dr. Thomas O'Connor of twenty-one men who join- ed at the Lancaster recruit- ing office. They are Ronald 115 East Main man, Mount Joy RI.
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