Something new is to be added to Mount Joy's annual Memorial Day celebration, ® 0 oo This year a homes tour is being planned for Monday, May 31. ® & +o Already plans are being formed for the tour and sev- eral homes have been sched- uled to be visited. Those in charge are making an effort to have every home on the tour represent something special in the field of home interest. ® © oo Other communities which have held the tours have found them to be very inter- esting and very popular. o © o Talk of organizing such a tour in Mount Joy has been heard for several years but until this spring the idea did not seem “ripe.” ® eo +o As plans progress and crys- talize, additions and full an- nouncements will be made. The Rotary club of Mount Joy is in charge. COURT OF HONOR The Mother's Auxiliary of Boy Scout Troop #39 will sponsor a covered dish din- ner at the Scout House on April 28 at 6:30 p.m. in con- junction with the April Court of Honor. = The Mount Joy BULLETIN DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS AND WELFARE OF MOUNT JOY AND ITS AREA MOUNT JOY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, APIIL 7, 1965 VOL. 64. NO. 43 SEVEN CENTS Florin Water Works Purchase May Be Near * Owners Asking Price Is $307,000 * Whether or not the Mount Joy Borough Authority buys the Florin Water Works and how much it will cost hinges heavily upon a special meet- ing to be held next Tuesday night. At that meeting, the Auth- ority, its legal and engineer- ing counsel, its bonding ex- perts and its financial advis- ors will sit down around a table to study the problem of purchase. At present, the Authority holds an option from the of- ficers of the water company * to buy. The option expires April 30. Purchase of the Florin sup- ply company has been dis- cussed and studied for many months and the owners have set a price of $307,000. At the Authority’s Tuesday night meeting this week, a “justification” report on the project was received follow- ing a study of the situation by Gannett Flaming, Corddry and Carpenter, engineering consultants and advisors. The Florin water system is fed by a very high produc- ing spring southwest of the borough which is estimated by engineers to produce from 2 to 3 milion gallons of wa- ter per day. Thus, purchase of the sys- Plan Pre-Election Forum A Pre-Election something new in Mount Joy is to be held Wedneslay nite, May 12, on the eve of the primary election. The Forum, at which can- didates for public office will appear to make statements ‘Of This and That’ by the editor's wife More indications of spring: rolls of red snow fence piled along the roadsides . . . the dark, moist soil of newly- turned furrows in the fields . much activity at the boro tennis courts . . . little lambs and an occasional colt frisking in the pastures . daffodils . . . and the robins are becoming more numer- ous every day! . .. * i * Many, many people from the Mount Joy area were a- mong the thousands who at- tended the Antiques Show last week at the Guernsey Pavilion. “Oooooh!” and ‘“Aaaaah!” were frequent exclamations we heard as we walked a- mong the crowd. We weren't sure whether the exclama- tions were caused by the beauty of the exhibits or the extremely high price tags on almost everything!! It could have been either. * * # Be that as it may, the Show was a fascinating one. We looked and walked until we could look and walk no longer! The beautiful cherry Dutch cupboard! The majes- tic corner cupboard! The sparkling cut glass! The dul- ly gleaming pewter!! The ex- 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. Newton Kendig THIS ISSUE -- Two Sections 24 PAGES quisite: china! The interest- ing pressed glass! (We found a goblet in the pattern which we collect!) The lovely ironstone plates, tureens and pitchers! The dolls, the coins, the guns! Surely there was something there which each person who attended could enjoy greatly. Furniture, china, glass, iron, wood, jewelry—it was all there, in quantity, and look- ing its prettiest! An antiques show is such a pleasant way to walk down the pathway to the past! % » * Another treat of the past (Turn to page 2) Win Honors At Ephrata Donegal high school boys and girls claimed 14 places last weekend at Ephrata at the county gymnast meet. In the Junior division, John Parker and Fred Buhr- inger took second and third on the still rings and Mark Lawrence was third on the trampoline. In the junior girls section, Kathy Hean was first and Becky Reinhold was third in tumbling; Jack- ie Shupp was second in floor exercises and Sue Stark was thrid on the balance beam. In the senior division, Gray Greiner led the boys. He had a second on the par- allel bars, a second on the trampoline and a third in floor exercises. Pat McDevitt took second on the high bar. Three girls placed in .sen- ior events. Carolyn Boltz claimed a second in vaulting; Joyce Beamenderfer a sec- ond on the balance beam and Sue ‘Miller third on the trampoline. Forum, and to answer questions, will be held in the Friendship Fire Hall, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. Sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the event will give people of the community an opportunity to ask questions of those who seek support of the people at the polls the week follow- ing the Forum. The Jaycees have invited all local candidates to partis cipate who have opposition in the primary election on May 18. This week, all but three of the candidates who face op- position had indicated that they will participate in the Forum. * Authority To Hold Special Meeting * tem provides Mount Joy's skimpy water supply with a tremendous new source. Al- so, it is pointed out, the spring water is not required to be treated through an ex- pensive system before it can be pumped into the distribu- tion mains. Further, purchase of the Florin system would give the Borough Authority a new block of revenue-producing customers. Thus, purchase a- mounts to something similar to the buying of a going bus- iness. * Other discussed plans for increasing Mount Joy's wa ter supply involve expensive new treatment plants to pro- cess surface water. Members of the Authority have pointed out that utiliza- tion of the Florin supply could be accomplished — at least on an emergency basis ~—with minimum effort and in a reasonably short time. In other business Tuesday night at its April meeting, the Authority heard state- ments by residents of south Angle street who said that they would rather not have sewers than to have them at a level which would not al- low drainage for basements. Authority voted to restrict (Turn to page 5) Honors At Science Fair Donegal high school—host to the 1965 County Science Fair — virtually stole the show! Not only were the D.H.S students’ exhibits numerous —24—but a D. H, S. sopho- more won the highest hon- ors the Fair could bestow. In addition, many other boys and girls claimed honors and heaped overflowing measures of credit upon their school, their community and upon themselves. Kathleen Zimmerman, 15- vear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Zimmerman, was the star of the show, winning grand champion honors and earning her way into the National Science To Resurface Streets One state highway im- provement and perhaps as many as a dozen borough street projects are planned in Mount Joy during the ’65 summer, it was revealed on Monday ngiht, April 5, at the Borough Council meet- ing, held in the fire hall. The state will resurface Manheim street from Main to Old Market sometime a- bout mid-summer. In the meantime, the Council voted to require property owners to install curbs by June 15. Nearly - a dozen streets have been tentatively mark- ed for summer work under a budget allocation of $25,000. Street Commissioner Simeon Banks To Close On Good Friday Mount Joy banks — three in number — will be closed on Friday, April 16, in ob- servance of Good Friday. The Mount Joy and Florin branches of the Lancaster County Farmers National bank will be open on Thurs- day, Apr. 15 on their regular Friday schedule from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m. The Union National Mount Joy bank will be open on Thursday, the 15th, from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. and drive up and walk up windows will be open again on Satur: day morning, the 17th, from 8 a.m. until 11 am. Horton reported that prelim- inary estimates on the jobs indicates a cost of nearly $32,000, making necessary the cutting back of original expectations. Signs of spring were plen- tiful Tuesday night. Plans were made to resurface some of the tennis courts at the borough park; playground equipment is being installed; tennis court nets are up; white and yellow paint in quantities is ready for paint- ing lines on streets; and dis- cussion was had on ‘‘eye- sores.” Two names were submit- ted to Council as candidates for appointment to the Done- gal School Authority to fill a place left vacant by the res- ignation of Samuel Bals- baugh. The two men are: John Weidman, south Mark- et street, and Worrell Jones, Birchland avenue. Delivery of the newly-pur- chased borough garbage truck is expected before May 1. New street lights are to be installed this week on Bruce avenue. Council voted favorably to join with Donegal School dis- trict to take a yearly census for tax purposes. A proposal for joint enterprise was made recently by Donegal School directors on a share-the-cost basis. Meetings are to be ar- ranged for further study. Councilmen reviewed the condition of the police cruis- er and took no action al- (Turn to page 2) Fair in St. Louis, Mo., May 5 to 8. For the 176 young exhib- itors, the show was a won- derful experience of exhibit- ing, demonstrating, explain- ing and participating. To the - judges who were responsible for selecting winners, it must have been a nightmare to select the best from a tre- mendous field of exhibits — all excellent and pre-selected from previous local exhibits as quality efforts. To the plain ordinary “man of the street” who vis- ited the Donegal gymnasium in quest of knowledge, the Fair was a bewildering world of electronics, space, sound, frogs, plants and vol- uminous reports. What was high school phy- sics and chemistry when the parents of the exhibitors were in prep school appeared to be lost in a backwash of elementary beginnings. The 1965 young scientists have their ideas focused on the new fields of achievement undreamed of a few years ago. Even the titles on many of the exhibits left the ordinary man wondering what the youngsters were in- vestigating. Kathleen Zimmerman’s was no exception. In the field of biology she conducted ex- periments over a 14-month period to investigate the re- sults of injecting certain substances into white mice. She was particularly interes- ted in malformations caused by the hormone cortisone. Donegal students dominat- ed the list of prize-winners in (Turn to page 5) Police Asking Full Information Police chief Bruce Kline this week made a strong plea that the public notify his de- partment when there is in- formation concerning crimin- al activity. Rumored cases of molesta- tions have been brought to his attention. But, _ dates, time, descriptions and cir cumstances are needed by the police. Too, he warned against amateur “investigating” and pointed out that full coopera- tion with the police depart- ment is what is needed.