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Decision by Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Breneman to sell their
106 - acre farm at the north
edge of the Borough as a site
for the proposed, new voca-
tional-tech school deserves
comment,
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Because of its prime loca-
tion in relation to the rest of
the borough, the area long
has been eyed as residential,
commercial and industrial
territory. But the owners
have been reluctant to accept
tempting land value offers.
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However, because of Brene-
man’s 27 years of service on
the local school board, and
because of their public spirit-
ed attitude, they now are
willing to sell and to make
possible a wonderful addition
to the community of Mount
Joy.
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Frequently we see the old,
familiar sights of our town
in their full and true perspec-
tive only when we see them
through the eyes of another
person,
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For instance, as National
Cash Register people come
to town we become conscious
of how we look to outsiders.
Then, as we talk to these
young people who invariably
ask about our schools, we see
bold and clearly the front
doors of our two newest
Mt. Joy elementary schools.
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Strangely enough, the out-
side doors of both are (and
have been for many months)
battered and banged, are
rusted and unpainted.
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We don’t know, of course,
but we’ll just bet that these
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New Bypass
Within little more than a
year, construction of the new
long-awaited Road 230 By-
pass is scheduled to begin!
And, as a Christmas gift
to the entire area, the high-
way should be finished in
December of 1969.
That is the way the pro-
gram is beginning to line up
this summer as the state high-
way department puts a fore-
ed draft under the bypass
BULLETIN
Mount Joy's ONLY Newspaper — Devoted to the Best Interest and Welfare of Mount Joy
MOUNT JOY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1966
VOL. 66. NO. 12
Phone Company
Will Issue Bills
In New Form
Telephone subscribers in
Columbia-United’'s Mount Joy
exchange will be surprised
to discover that their old fa-
miliar monthly telephone bill
has undergone a ‘face lift-
ing”.
A modern streamlined for-
mat is scheduled to be un-
veiled in the current month's
billing, according to Presi-
dent H. ¥. Smith.
The new telephone bill,
consisting of a one-page state-
ment prepared entirely by
computer, itemizes all local
service charges, toll charges,
credits and taxes into a sing-
le page listing. Formerly toll
charges were printed on a
second sheet and inserted
separately into each sub-
scriber’s bill
Full information explain-
ing the new billing procedure
will accompany the first com-
puterized bill.
The decision to adopt a
computer oriented system of
customer billing has been
dictated by the increase in
telephone customers in the
Columbia-United service area,
the additional services offer-
ed, and the wider variety of
equipment which is now av-
ailable.
COIN CLUB
The Mount Joy-Florin Coin
club will meet Thursday, Au-
gust 25. at 8 p. m. at the
Mount Joy restaurant.
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Auxiliary News
The Ladies Auxiliary of
the Mount Joy Fire Company
met in the Fire Hall on Aug.
18. The president presided
with 13 members in attend-
ance.
Birthday greetings were
extended to Dolly Maxwell,
Harriet Roebuck, Charlotte
Leib, Betty Taylor and Edith
Etsell.
Plans were made for a
rummage sale to be held at
the Fire Hall on September
16th.
Bank To Buy
Swarr Property
Agreements have been
reached for the Lancaster
County Farmers National
bank to purchase the Irving
Swarr home on West Main
street.
The house, located immedi-
ately west of the bank's
property, is vacant since its
owner held an auction sale of
his personal property and has
now moved to Elizabethtown
Plans are, .a bank official
said this week, that after fin-
al papers are signed that the
house will be razed and the
area converted into a park-
ing lot, added to the present
macadamed area north and
west of the bank building.
No sale price was. announc-
ed.
By Christmas Of 1969
project to give relief from the
strangling Road 230 traffic
problem.
As things stand now, plans
are being completed and
bids for the work are to be
asked next summer. They
would be awarded in Septem-
ber and construction could
begin about 30 days later.
Actual construction would
require about two years with
completion anticipated in
‘Of This and That’
As the editor says, it’s hard
for us who live here 365 days
a year to appreciate Mount
Joy and Lancaster County
properly. Sometimes it takes
the “eyes” and the comments
of an “auslander” to bring
them back into focus for us.
We had that experience last
week when our sister and her
husband from Southern Indi-
ana came for a four-day visit.
We took them “antiquing,”
and they were amazed at the
wealth of interesting old
things available at auctions
and in shops. We took them
to a nice restaurant not too
far away, and they loved our
delectably different foods,
which we take so much for
granted. We took them for a
drive through the country-
side, and they were flattering
in their comments:
THIS ISSUE --
Two Sections
24 PAGES
by the editor's wife
“How prosperous it looks
everywhere!”
“What beautiful homes and
barns on the farms!”
We drove around through
Mount Joy, and they said,
“Everything’s so neat” and
orderly! Your Eastern towns
are all so quaint and beauti-
ful!”
How refreshing it is, to
‘“see’” our area through the
eyes of close friends or rela-
tives who gladly share their
impressions with us!
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One of life’s little unexpec-
ted dividends: As our adver-
tising manager, Dan Schroll
was returning to Mount Joy
from Manheim Tuesday af-
ternoon, he was privileged to
see a real “Wild West Show”,
enacted right before his eyes,
in a field along the road on
which he was driving!
A terrified steer was rac-
ing through the field, follow-
ed by a “cowboy” and a
“cowgirl” on horseback,
swinging lassos with which
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December of 1969.
The matter of interchanges
continues, apparently, to be
unsettled. However, there
are indications that Mount
Joy may have rather close ac-
cess to the new highway via
three entrances.
One, according even to the
original plans, would be just
west of Big Chiques creek,
where the new roadway will
bend northward from the
present highway.
Another, as now seems
possible, may be at the in-
tersection of the new road-
way and the Mount Joy-Man-
heim roaad (near the Amos
Shelly farm.) And, still an-
other, yet not definite, would
be located on the Colebrook
road north and east of
Rheems
Originally, plans called for
an entrance on the Cedar
Tree road, just north of the
“S” curves. However, if the
Colebrook and Manheim road
interchanges are built the one
one on Cedar Tree would be
abandoned.
Construction of the Bypass
has been pushed ahead in
the highway department by
several months to make its
completion coincide ,with the
conversion of present Road
230 into limited access from
Lancaster.
Actual plans for that pro-
ject were begun as much as
two years earlier.
To make Road 230 a limit-
ed access road along its pres-
ent routing will require in-
stalling as many as three in-
terchanges, presently planned
at the Flory's Mill road, at
the East Petersburg road
and the Salunga-Spooky Nook
road.
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106-ACRE BRENEMAN FARM IS PART
OF INDIAN LORE OF THIS AREA
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One of Lancaster county’s proposed, new vocation-
al-technical schools is to be located in Mount Joy!
And, last week a 106-acre tract of land at the north
edge of the borough was optioned with a view to mak-
ing the area the site of the important new develop
ment in the school program of the county.
The land, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brene-
man, Marietta avenue, has been optioned to the Done-
gal school district, which was acting in the interest of
the vo-tech organization.
Present plans call for development of the properly
with buildings, facilities
and improvements
which
will reach into the millions of dollars.
All plans have not been formulated definitely, but
the program is moving along and the anticipation is
that within the near future there will be activity eon
the site.
The area is one of historic
interest, for on it is located
the entrance to caves which
are part of the Indian lore of
this section. There are stories
of treasure and intrigue asso-
ciated with the caves, all con-
nected with the Indians who
roamed this part of the coun-
try many many years ago.
It is known that the red
men did spend much time
here, for stone artifacts have
been found in the immediate
vicinity and it is believed
that tribesmen passed thru
the area, using the caves and
the “Cove” area as a camp-
ground.
Historians say that early
white men also visited the
site to parley with the Indi-
ans and to make trade and
territorial agreements,
Thus, the historic spot pas-
ses into public ownership.
The land now under option
came into the Breneman fam-
ily in 1876 when the late
Phillip Franck, a local busi-
nessman, purchased the land
as one of his investments.
Ownership went to his daugh-
ter, Joseph Breneman’s mo-
ther. Later Breneman and his
sister inherited the land.
Some years ago he purchased
his sister’s interests.
There is one set of farm
buildings on the land. The
home is occupied by the Ray-
mond Miller family and the
fields are farmed by Harold
O. Sherer.
With the exception of one
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home along Fairview street,
the land occupies the area
bounded by Fairview street,
on the west, Cemetery road
on the north, the Cove on the
east, and on the south by
land owned by Robert Keller
and several parcels which
front onto Manheim avenue
and Second street. The south
line intersects Fairview a
very short distance opposite
the swimming pool.
The land was selected from
several in the area which had
been considered as suitable
by the site committee of the
vo-tech organization. Because
that organization hasn't been
completed. Donegal, as one
of the schools which will
send students to the new faeci-
lity, becomes the option hold-
er. Later, after a number eof
state agency approvals and
charter of the vo-tech auther-
ity, the legal matters will be
transferred.
Purchase price of the land
was set at $106,000.
Besides Donegal, other
schools which will send
young people here are Hemp-
field, Elizabethtown, Colum-
bia, Manheim Central and
probably some from a few
other schools in the county.
The site is ideally located to
handle this aspect of the situ-
ation. Nearly 1,000 young-
sters are expected to be us-
ing the school—all 10th, 11th
and 12th graders.
Water and sewer facilities
are available with a mini-
mum of installation problems.
An Editorion
Announcement this week that a fine, new vo-
cational-technical school is to be located in Mount
Joy is cause for community rejoicing and celebra-
tion.
Not only is the decision to bring the school
here good in itself, but it marks another in the
growing series of wonderful things happening to
Mount Joy.
Our community is making some giant steps to-
ward the realization of its potential and every citi-
zen can take a measure of pride in the fact that
we are developing some latent possibilities.
The school’s decision puts a third outstanding
project “on tap” for Mount Joy.
Already two others are in the works and as
time goes on they will begin to display their bene-
fits to Mount Joy.
We speak of National Cash Register’s plans
for a big plant at the eastern edge of the borough
and of the coming Weis Mrket on west Main St.
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