Progress toward establish-
ing a library in Mount Joy
continues behind the scenes!
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At a recent meeting of
various leaders of the pro-
posed library movement and
legal counsel, it was decided
that the local library center
should be incorporated.
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A library board is to be
formed and incorporated. The
official papers are being
drawn now.
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Arrangements for the 1964
“Let Freedom Ring” observ-
ance in Mount Joy is under
the direction of Art Sprech-
er.
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At 2 p.m. on the Fourth of
July, all bells in the commu-
nity will join with others
across the nation to ring out
for freedom.
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What's a “Skirmish?”
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Some organizations have
rallies, other have meetings,
other hold races, others re-
lays, others shoots, others
hold regattas.
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A Skirmish is the gather-
ing of another kind of buff
interested in guns, shooting.
drilling etc. We believe that
Mount Joy will know more
about the matter within a
few weeks.
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The situation is not eritic-
al at the moment, but if
there are those who have 5
ft. by 8 ft. American flags
which they would like to do-
nate to the community, they
will be greatly appreciated,
and will be used to fly from
the pole in Memorial park.
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Although there are a couple
of extra flags now, it takes
several each year. Wind, rain
and breeze take tehir toll
and—depending upon the
weather — they do not last
indefinitely.
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If there are flags available,
owners may contact George
Albert, president of the Com-
munity Council.
BULLETIN
DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS AND WELFARE OF MOUNT JOY AND ITS AREA
VOL. 64. NO. 4.
MOUNT JOY, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1964
SEVEN CENTS
EARLY PAPER. Four Playlots
Because Saturday of next
week is the Fourth of July
and a holiday, this news-
paper will be published
one day early.
The paper will be print-
ed on Tuesday and circul-
ated on Wednesday next
week to provide advertis-
ers with one additional day
of exposure to the readers.
Taking Sewer
Line Soundings
Soundings to determine lo-
cation of underground rock
are being taken in the Florin
ward as one of the prelim-
inaries necessary to the let-
ting of contracts for build-
ing a sewer system.
The soundings, which are
being made by workmen and
engineers of the Gannet,
Fleming, Corddry & Carpen-
ter, will help give bidders a
better estimate of the am-
ount of underground rock
which may be anticipated
when actual trench = digging
begins.
Gannet, Fleming, Corddry
and Carpenter are also the
consulting engineers which
are designing the sewer sys-
tem for the newly annexed
portion of Mount Joy.
In reality, the soundings
are drillings, made from the
back of a truck, which indi-
level underground rock may
be expected along the pro-
posed sewer line route.
To Open Tuesday
For Six-Weeks Summer Program
Donegal district's summer
playgrounds will open Tues-
day, June 30, for a six-weeks
program under the direction
of Marshall Gemberling.
Operated by the school dis-
trict, which provides the per-
sonnel, there will be four
playlots Marietta, Wash-
ington school, Maytown and
Mount Joy.
Programs will be offered
five day per week from 9 a.
m. until 12, from 1 to 3 and
6 to 8:30 p.m. Personnel be-
sides Gemberling will include
10 playground supervisors,
two arts and crafts supervis-
ors, five supervisors for
swimming, music and even-
ing programs
The Washington school
playground is sponsored by
the Washington PTA; Mariet-
ta by the Marietta Recrea-
tional association; Maytown
by the American Legion and
Maytown Civie association
and Mount Joy by the Social
Welfare association. Spon-
sors provide supplies, equip-
ment and bus transportation.
The personnel includes:
Mrs. Walter Price, Mrs. Jas.
Sarbaugh, Miss M. LaVon
Manning, Mrs. Joan Eby,
Walter Price, James Sar-
baugh, Benjamin Weaver
(arts and crafts at Marietta
and Maytown), Warren Rupp,
James Neely (in charge of
swimming), James R. Evans,
(swimming), Donald Kugle,
Mrs. RoAnn Lau, Randolph
Mateer, Miss Harriett Haw-
thorn, arts "and crafts at
Golfers Set For Tourney
Thirty-one members of
the Mount Joy Golf Associa-
tion have been ‘“handicap-
ped” for the organization’s
first tournament, scheduled
to be held Sunday, June 28,
at Cool Creek.
Handicaps range from eight
To Develop 80-Acre Farm
the
northwest corner of Donegal
Springs Road and S. Market
A 30-acre farm, located in
the Florin ward, has been
purchased and it to be used
for development purposes, it
was revealed this week.
The farm, owned by Miss
Myra Hess, has been purch-
ased by Jones and Zink, Inc.
of Elizabethtown and plans
now are that the area will
ba surveyed and laid out
for development very short-
ly.
Frank Zink, Marietta ave.,
said this week that his firm
hopes to begin development
next spring.
THIS ISSUE --
Two Sections
20 PAGES
As a public service. The
Bulletin lists the following
physician. who may be
reached for emergency ser-
vice or by those who are
unable to contact their
family physician:
Sunday
Dr. John Gates
The farm, located in
avenue, is entirely within
the Mount Joy borough lim-
its.
Miss Hess will continue to
live at the farm home.
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At 75 Plus Party
Mount Joy Jaycees and
Joycees entertained 163
guests at the eighth annual
Seventy-Five Plus party, held
Thursday night, June 18th.
The program featured a
talk and a film on the New
York World's Fair.
Members of the Jaycee
committee in charge of the
event were Bob Mackison,
Ron Hawthorn, John Stauffer
and Jack Poetzinger.
Serving on the Joycees
committee were Barbara Bair
Zodie Shearer, Pat Lesher,
Becky Poetzinger, Nancy
Brown, and Pat Gibble.
Jaycee co-chairmen were
Jim Thorbahn and Toby
Weber. Joycee co-chairmen
were Izella Packer and Pat
Moran.
for Frank Aument to a 35
for Ken Gainer. Second low
is a 10 for Joe Hostetter,
Elevens have been posted for
Gerald Hostetter, Elias Lin-
demuth, Roy Packer and 13’s
for Ken Smith and Baxter
Wells. On the other end, Don
Zerphey has a 32 and Paul
Stoner Jr. and Len Cybulski
30's.
The tourney handicaps are
based on cards filed prior to
June 19. Others will be ac-
cepted until Friday, June 26
by members of the commit-
tee — Gerald Hostetter, Len
Safko, Baxter Wells and R.
F. Hallgren.
Tee off time for the tourn-
ey Sunday is 11:30 a.m. un-
til 1:30 p.m.
Donegal Hi
Leaders at Camp
Two Mount Joy boys, both
of whom will be seniors at
Donegal high school next
fall, returned home last week
from a six-day leadership
camp, sponsored by the Ro-
tary clubs of this district.
The camp, -which was held
for more than 100 boys, was
at Camp Carson, near Lick-
dale and Indiantown Gap.
The boys were Jeffrey
Hawthorne, 23 Poplar street,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Hawthorne; and Michael
Wagner, 203 East Main St.
son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Wagner.
When in need of printin~
remember The Bulletin.
Mount Joy and Florin), Mor-
rell Shields, (music), Henry
Brooks (swimming) and Mrs.
Marian Mowrer (swimming).
To be eligible to take part
in the swimming program,
boys and girls must be at
least seven years of age as
of July 1, must be registered
at one of the four play-
grounds and to take part in
the afternoon recreational
swims must attend at least
2Y2 sessions of the play:
ground the preceding week.
Maytown and Mount Joy
will have afternoon swims
on Tuesdays, beginning July
7. Florin and Marietta will
swim on Mondays, begin-
ning July 6.
The entire swimming pro--
gram is based upon the Am-
erican Red Cross outlines
and swimmers passing tests
in any group will receive
Red Cross certificates.
Beginning swim lessons for
Mount Joy will begin at 9
am. July 1; Florin 10:30 a.
m. the same day; 9 a.m. July
15, Marietta and Maytown.
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Mail or Male Letter Carrier?
Mount Joy is to have a
female mail carrier.
That's no pun and no mis-
spelling of a word. The U. S.
Mail is to be delivered in the
Florin ward of Mount Joy
by a woman.
Beginning Friday, Mrs.
Louise Forwood, south Mar-
ket avenue, is to handle the
On Dean's List
Herbert W. E. Nix, the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Osborne E.
Nix, Mount Joy R1, has been
named to the dean’s list at
Messiah College, Grantham,
Pa. Herbert is majoring in
chemistry and mathematics.
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GRADUATES FROM F.I.T.
C. Richard Becker, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Becker
of 212 West Main Street,
graduated from Fashion In-
stitute of Technology, New
York, Thursday, June 11, He
received an award for one
of the ten outstanding in a
class of 500. He is employed
as Assistant Buyer for the
Robyn Sue Fashions in New
York City.
door-to-door deliveries of
mail. She will be taking the
place of Donald Eichler, who
is on an extended sick leave.
Earlier this week Mrs. For-
wood, wife of Elmer For-
wood, was, as they say in
the post office, “learning the
case.” That means that she
was being briefed in the par-
ticulars of sorting and hand-
ling of the mail in the office
prior to starting the deliv-
eries.
While a woman mail car-
rier in Mount Joy is some-
thing new and different,
there are many many women
carrying mail in many other
communities and doing the
job without difficuty.
Because she is a resident
of the area and knows the
people, no difficulties are an-
ticipated.
Mrs. Forwood for a time
was a temporary substitute
clerk at the Florin post office
and more recently has held
the same position at the main
office at Main and Market
streets.
Since Eichler was taken ill
several days ago, the Florin
ward has been delivered by
J. Roy Eshleman.
Death Comes To
S. Nissley Gingrich, prom-
inent area businessman and
banker, died at his home on
Rl at 5:15 p.m. Monday,
June 22.
He was the founder and
president of S. Nissley Ging-
rich, Inc., insurance agency,
12 South Duke St., Lancaster
and director of the Lancaster
County Farmers National
Bank. He was sixty-eight
years old. He has been ill for
several months.
He began his business car-
eer as assistant cashier of
Union National Mount Joy
Bank and opened his insur-
ance business at Florin in
1918.
The firm was incorporated
in 1931 and is the oldest in-
corporated agency of its kind
in Lancaster.
Gingrich also was a direct-
or of the Donegal Mutual In-
surance Co., Marietta.
Throughout his insurance
career, Gingrich retained
banking interests. He served
as a director and officer of
the First National Bank and
Trust Co., Mount Joy, for
many years before its consoli-
dation with Lancaster County
Farmers National Bank in
1962. He then became a di-
rector of the larger firm and
Nissley Gingrich
has served as chairman of
the advisory board of the
Mount Joy branch bank.
Gingrich also held inter-
ests in dairy processing and
real estate. He was a pre-
World War II president of
Lancaster Dairy Co., a milk
processing firm, and former
president of the Pennsylvan-
ia Milk Products Corp., Har-
risburg, a milk and ice cream
enterprise.
He was secretary
director of Nissons,
holding company for
tate.
Gingrich was a member of
Trinity Lutheran Church, the
Hamilton Club, Lancaster
Country Club, Lodge 1074,
BPOE and the Pennsylvania
Assn. of Insurance Agents.
He is listed in “Who’s Who
In Insurance” and “Who's
Who In Commerce and In-
dustry.”
He was born at Florin, a
son of the late Samuel S. and
Katie B. Nissley Gingrich on
Nov. 7, 1895, and was educat-
ed in the public schools of
East Donegal Twp.
He is survived by his wife,
Charlotte E. Good Gingrich;
two sons, Jay Nissley “The
Springs”, and Bruce F., East
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