Something new is to be
added to Mount Joy's annual
Memorial Day celebration,
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This year a homes tour is
being planned for Monday,
May 31.
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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.
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Other communities which
have held the tours have
found them to be very inter-
esting and very popular.
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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.”
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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! . ..
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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!
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Another treat of the past
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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
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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-
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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
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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.