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R. A. R.
The literary laugh of the
week came a few days ago
when an over - enthusiastic
editorial writer did a turn on
the death of Carl Sandburg.
It was a good enough piece,
except he attempted to use a
quotation.
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Unfortunately, the quota-
tion he used was by Robert
Frost. Many people caught
the boo-boo instantly and said
so. Others can sympathize
with the writer for both men
have some things in common.
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However,, we do remember
certain men for certain
things. Odgen Nash, for in-
stance, said, “I didn’t say it.”
Dorothy Thompson said that
‘Men seldom make passes at
girls who wear glasses’. I
said ‘I never saw a purple
cow. I never hope to see one.
But I can tell you anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one’ ”.
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Robert Frost is the man
who had trouble, while all
the world watched on televis-
ion, as he attempted to read
a special poem at President
Kennedy's inauguration.
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Well, that pin points at
least three people.
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But, we began with Carl
Sandburg and that’s where
we're getting.
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To remember one needs to
recall only two things — 1. -
That he was the meticuleous
biographer of Abraham Lin-
coln, and 2. - He wrote ‘“The
fog comes on little cat
feet. It sits looking over har-
bor and city on silent haunch-
es and then moves on.”
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Of course, there’s much
much more but those two
would keep one out of troub-
le.
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We have still more which
may be slightly interesting,
although of a personal na-
ture.
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Many many years ago so it
seems now, (about 30) Carl
Sandburg came to lecture on
the campus of Indiana uni-
versity. As a young reporter
on the daily paper in that
town, we were given the as-
signment of interviewing the
man who even then had be-
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The Mount Joy
BULLETIN
Mount Joy's ONLY Newspaper
VOL. 67. NO. 9.
Auto Crashes
Into Grove Home
West of Town
Two were injured, the life
of another was threatened
and several hundred dollars
property damage was done
Saturday morning, July 29,
when a car ran wild at the
west edge of the borough on
Road 230.
Albert Fitzkee, 73, Rheems,
acompanied by his wife Lucy,
was driving west when he
was suddenly stricken. The
car veered across the high-
way, southward, crossed a
portion of a field, tore thru
Midget Football
All boys interested in Mid-
ing coaches’ homes:
Barry Estell,
and Gary Maxwell.
Marietta
Ed Proctor and Ralph Gohn.
Annex field, Mount Joy.
AT McCHORD AFB
Herman, whose mother
an iron pipe railing, climbed Mount Joy R2, has arrived
onto the back porch of the for duty at McChord AFB,
Lester Grove home and ram- wash.
med into the brickwall of the
get football, ages 9 to 13 may
pick up papers at the follow-
John Parker,
Practice begins August 14,
at 6:30 p.m. at the Junior Hi
Staff Sergeant Kenneth E.
is
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Shickler of
Sergeant Herman, a finance
Devoted to the Best Interest and Welfare of Mount Joy
MOUNT JOY, PENNA. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1967
SEVEN CENTS
Open Three Tennis Courts
Donegal high school’s ten-
nis courts are open to the
public!
Mount Joy — Roy Wagner,
John Wagner, John Wealand,
Jim Gingrich
Announcement was made
Monday that three of the six
new courts are to be left un-
locked and anyone interested
may try them out.
However, there are {wo
very important restrictions:
1. Players MUST wear
tennis shoes, and
2. The courts will be left
open only so long as the priv-
elege is not abused and play-
ers respect the property in
every reasonable way.
At an on-the-site inspection
Friday at which representa-
tives of the school and of the
builders were in attendance,
the situation was reviewed
and the above announcement
was issued.
It was about a year ago
that the school let bids for
constructing six courts at a
cost of a little more than $27-
,000.
The project moved slowly
and very, very little use
was had of the vourts even
before school closed in June.
By that time there was a
feeling that the green finich
surface was too soft and the
gates were locked.
Local Boy on Forrestal
house. . specialist, previously served
5 Window pi caved In at Korat Royal Thia AFB,
and a portion o: € wal a- Thailand. He is assigned to (Ope Mount Jov family anx-
round the opening knocked the Air Defense Command iously awaits word This veo
down. A television set just
inside was demolished. Ten-
year-old Ken Grove had been North American Air Defense
watching the TV until only command protecting the
seconds before the crash. continent.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Fitzkee
were taken to the General
hospital in the Friendship
Fire company ambulance.
Mrs. Fitzkee was treated
and released. Her husband
remains for treatment and
observation. He was listed
Monday as being in satisfact-
ory condition.
The sergeant attended Lan-
caster, Catholic high school.
His wife is the former Dar-
lene M. Bishop.
TO HAVE BIRTHDAY
Maurice Marsales, 34 West
Main street, will observe his
57th birthday Tuesday, Aug-
which is the Air Force com-
ponent of the U.S. - Canadian
was a-
super
about a sailor who
board the fire-ravaged
carrier, U.S.S. Forrestal.
On the ship is ADJ-2 Barry
A. Stehman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Warren H. Stehman, of
619 Square street, who is a
mechanic for helicopters.
The 26-year-old serviceman
last contacted his family by
letter about two weeks ago
and at that time was in good
health.
Barry, a graduate of Bob
Jones Academy at Greenville,
S. C., entered Naval service
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in December of 1963 and did
his basic training at Great
Lakes, Ill. He then was sta-
tioned in New Jersey and la-
ter was aboard the U. S. S.
Sarasota for two cruises in
the Mediterranean.
When his three years were
completed, he re-enlisted and
chose to go aboard the super
carrier, hoping to see another
part of the world.
Fire ripped through the
Forrestal Saturday when fuel
ignited. Deaths by Tuesday
had been listed at more than
100 and many more men were
still missing.
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ust 8.
TO CALIFORNIA
Mrs. Doris Byle and son
Kenneth will leave by jet
from Philadelphia Saturday,
for a two-weeks trip to the
west coast. En route home
they will stop over in Okla-
homa City for a visit with
Mrs. Byle’s sister, Mrs. John
Bashore and family. Mrs.
Byle’s beauty shop on east
Main street will be closed in
her absence, from Aug. 5 to
22.
How long can the new
Stauffer landfill be a
That is a good question
which no one will be able to
answer until the big pit has
been used for several months.
The former ore mine, re-
cently approved as a landfill
site, will—within a few days
—become the disposal site
for trash, rubbish and gar-
bage from Mount Joy Bor-
ough.
Located on the farm of
Wayne Stauffer, near Marietta
the deep pit is ideally suit-
ed for its intended use. Isol-
ated from other buildings, it
is located in a small woods.
The hole itself covers about
two acres, Stauffer said.
The hole was created many,
YOUTH TALENT
The Pleasant View United
Zion Christ Crusaders are
sponsoring a program of
Youth talent with vocal and
instrumental music on Satur-
day, August 5, at 7:30 p.m.
in the United Zion Camp
Grove near Mt. Gretna. Ev-
eryone is welcome.
‘Of This and That’
“Music in the Park” Sun-
day evening by the “Sing Out,
Lancaster’ group was really
mis-named!
Oh, there was music, all-
right—good, lively, tuneful
music, well-executed by a
group of talented vivacious,
enthusiasitc young people!
But as we sat there in the
beautiful park, amid the larg-
est audience yet to attend
these Mount Joy Memorial
park activities, we said to
ry ‘ “This particular
program should have been
called ‘The Sermon in the
Park! ”
Why?
Because, as the young peo-
ple, radiating warmth and
joy, entertained with their
catchy tunes and original lyr-
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out there, you mothers
fathers with young children,
you shouldn’t worry unduly
about ‘the state of the nation’
or the fate of the world!
dark at times, but we CARE
about what happens to
country and people all
the world.
ing to become involved and
do something about it.
tion of ‘What is the color of
God’s skin, Mommie?’ We're
trying
Way, America?”
Washington’ a hand,
ever we can!
“You can trust us, and the
thousands of others like us all
over
steady hand on the keel
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many years ago when a low
grade iron ore was mined at
the spot and probably hauled
to smelters located at Mari-
etta.
Stauffer estimates that it
has been 100 years since the
mine was used. In the mean-
by the editor's wife
ics, they were not only sing-
ing and playing instruments,
they were also saying, in ef-
fect:
sitting
and
“You dear oldsters, Mount Joy Joycee-ettes and
their guests went by bus to
Collegeville, Pa., Saturday
evening, July 29, where they
had a smorgasbord dinner at
the Collegeville Inn.
Those attending were: Mr.
and Mrs. Ronald Hawthorne,
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Moran,
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bitzer, Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew Reymer,
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lesher,
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Packer and
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Newcom-
er, all of Mount Joy; Mr. and
Mrs. Jeff Robinson, Mr. and
Mrs. ‘Robert Lawrence, and
Mr. and Mrs. William Grove
of Landisville. Mr. and Mrs.
Leo Moore, and Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Grubb, Lancaster, Mr.
and Mrs. Don Gibble,and Mr.
and Mrs. Loy Gutshall, Eliza-
bethtown. Nancy Brown,
Marietta, Joe Hershey, Eliza-
bethtown, and Mr. and Mrs.
Leslie Doremus, Ephrata.
“Things may look pretty
our
over
“We care, and we are will-
“We're tackling the ques-
to discover ‘Which
“We're willing to give ‘Mr.
when-
America, to keep a
of
time huge, trees have grown
up from the floor of the pit
and there has been some min-
or dumping of trash into the
abyss.
The owner said that one
of the first things he will
need to do on the site is to
clear a few trees in the bot-
tom.
Land in the area has a pe-
culiar red quality and in the
bottom of the hole can be
found boulders which are un-
usually heavy and have a
rusty kind of color.
The depth of the pit and
its size suggest that the min-
ing operation must have been
one which needed a tremen-
dous quantity of muscular la-
bor—horses and men. Al-
though the east end of the
excavation is ‘open’ it still
presents a very steep incline
up which loads of iron-bear-
ing material doubtless were
removed. Other walls are
steep.
For a limited period, Mt.
Joy will have an exclusive
use of the pit. During that
time all concerned will have
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How Long Will New Landfill Serve Boro?
an opportunity to ohserve
how fast the space fills up
and to make some kind of an
estimate as to how leng use
of the location can be antici-
pated.
Need for landfills is a
growing necessity as urban
areas create more and mere
waste materials which must
be given disposal.
Landfill operation requires
that refuse be covered regul-
arly.
At the east end eof the
Stauffer location there is a
huge quantity of earth, ideal-
ly suited for this purpose.
To handle the job, Stauffer
has added a heavy pieee eof
earth-moving equipment to
his farm operation. As the
area is suited, the moving of
the earth from its present lo-
cation to the spot to be cev-
ered is almost perfect.
Although Mount Joy Bor-
ough crews have been haul-
ing local refuse to the Lan-
caster landfill for several
weeks, the switch to Stauf-
fer’s property is expected
very shortly.
About $1 Mil
A million dollars a mile is
the price which appears prob-
able for the first stretch of
the new Route 230 bypass a-
round Mount Joy and Eliza-
bethtown.
Friday, July 28, the state
Department of Highways ac-
cepted bids for the first 3.4
miles of that long-awaited
project and the low figure
proposed was $3,215,696.34.
The four-lane, limited ac-
cess highway section last
week was for the work be-
tween Mount Joy and Eliza-
bethtown. Low figure was
submitted by Lycoming Con-
struction company of Wil-
liamsport. Seven -others sub-
lion Per Mile
mitted bids.
Other biddings will be held
for other sections of the new
highway. At least two others
are scheduled — one for the
stretch of pavement between
Big Chiques creek and the
eastern terminus of the sec-
tion bid last week and’ aneth-
er for the stretch west of the
Mount Joy - Elizabethtown
section.
Also bid last week was a
6.8 mile stretch of Route 230
between Salunga and the
Manheim Lancaster Pike.
Work in that area is to con-
vert the existing roadway to
limited access. Roads will be
closed, access roadways buitl
and other construction.