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The following dispatch
from Belfast, Ireland, ap-
peared in Sunday's New
York Times and was sent to
The Bulletin by N. C. Wit-
mer of Santa Fe, N. M. The
reason for publication is ap-
parent:
Belfast, Northern Ireland,
Sept. 27 — A Scottish-Irish
trust has been established by
Terence M. O’Neill, North-
ern Ireland’s Prime Minister,
to coordinate restoration
work on buildings of historic
Ulster-American interest, it
was announced here Wednes-
day.
The formation of the trust
was marked today by a do-
nation of $250,000 from the
Mellon family of Pittsburgh,
for the restoration of the
boyhood home of Judge
Thomas Mellon at Mount Joy
near Omagh, County Tyrone.
The Mellon family emigrated
from Tyrone to Pennsylvania
in 1818 and developed the
Mellon National Bank and
Trust Company. Judge Mel-
lon, who died in 1908, had a
copy of his childhood home
built on the grounds of his
Pittsburgh estate.
The chairman of the new
trust is Sir Francis Evans,
the former Ulster agent in
London and former British
Consul General in New York.
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An interesting matter of
government and taxation is
developing in connection
with the return of the Mari-
etta base to private use.
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Both local government and
the school district have their
eyes on the property and its
developments as a source of
revenue,
However, the when and
how remain knotty problems.
Although no one knows, ap-
parently, it begins to look as
if the property will yield no
tax revenue for at least a
year.
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A sign of the season! This
week we observed state high-
way workers erecting snow
fence.
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A new and interesting phe-
nomenon. In growing num-
bers, people who are concern-
ed with the handling of var-
ious kinds of paper work are
using the new, felt marking
pens as pocket pens.
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How many fire engines has
Mount Joy had?
9 ® ®
In a conversation the other
day one of the old hands re-
called that there have been
at least nine—the three that
are now in service, an earlier
Dodge, a Cosmopolitan, an
Oldsmobile, a chain-driven
American-Lafrance, the old
gasoline engine pumper
pulled by men (or an auto),
and the first pumper, a hand-
pulled, hand-powered outfit.
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IN HOSPITAL
David C. Witmer was re-
moved to the Lancaster Gen-
eral hospital last Saturday af
iernoon in the Maytown am-
bulance. He was stricken
while acting as a host to the
visitors at the Donegal
church, on the Lancaster
County Day Tour, sponsored
by the Art Association.
When in neec¢ o: printing
remember The Bulletin.
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Mount Joy's ONLY Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest and Welfare of Mount Joy
VOL. 67. NO. 21.
MOUNT JOY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1967
SEVEN CENTS
Set Date, Place Florin Fire Co. Adds Big Pumper
To Growing Fleet of Equipment
For Horse Race
The horse race which for
several years has been called
the Donegal Derby, will be
held this fall on Sunday, No-
vember 5, at the Mumma
Stock farm, located on Roule
230 near Landisville,
Announcement of the time
and place was made this
week by the Mount Joy Jun-
ior Chamber of Commerce,
which is sponsoring the ev-
ent.
In the past the afternoon
of informal “fun with the
horses’’” has been held at the
Donegal Airport, owned by
Harold Endslow,
Rudy Ney Hurt
As Vietnam M.P.
Reuben (Rudy) Ney, one
of Donegal high school’s out-
standing athletic stars, has
been a casualty of the war
in Vietnam.
Although relatively few
details are known, his moth-
er, Mrs. William Poe, of 108
Front street, Marietta, said
that on Aug. 29, as a military
police with the U.S. Marines,
he was guarding an import-
ant bridge at DaNang.
There was an explosion,
Mrs. Poe learned from her
son, and he was injured by
the concussion. He was knock-
ed unconscious and when he
regained consciousness he
was aboard a hospital ship
He was not wounded.
He now is in the Philadel-
phia Naval hospital, where
Mrs. Poe viesitd him Tues-
day, Oct. 11.
Although he has been bed-
fast for much of the time
since the explosion, he now
is ambulatory but he does
not remember much about the
incident connected with his
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New Uniform
For Drum Major
Donegal high school’s high-
stepping drum major—Stan-
ley Tucker—is to have a fine
new, flashy flashy suit —
suitable in color and detail to
the splendid appearance he
has been making this fall with
the D.H.S. band.
The new suit,
by the school
meeting last week, already
has been ordered and it is
hoped it will be delivered
ready for appearance before
the end of the football sea-
son.
Tucker, who has been play-
ing in the percussion section
of the band, is now a junior.
The suit is to cost approx-
imately $150.
authorized
board at its
IN VIETNAM
Airman Third Class Robert
L. Bender, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Bender of Mount
Joy R2 is on duty at Da Nang
AB, Vietnam.
Airman Bender, an aircraft
mechanic, is a member of
the Pacific Air Forces which
provides offensive - defensive
airpower for the U. S. and its
allies in the Pacific, Far East
and Southeast Asia.
Before his arrival in South-
east Asia, he was assigned to
Sheppard Air Force Base, In
Texas.
The airman is a graduate
of Donegal high school.
Florin Fire company has
added a fine, big fire truck
to its fleet of equipment and
hopes to place the vehicle in
service within the next few
days.
A 1750-gallon pumper, it is
fitted with all necessary ex-
tras, including a 5C0-gallon
booster tank.
Fire Chief John Henry
Lutz said this week that the
truck will add greatly to the
company’s capacity, for it is
fitted with a full load of
21% inch hose, and all small
tools.
A 1962 model,
the truck
comes from Branchville, Md.,
a small community about 10
miles outside of Washington,
D.C., and was used by a big
volunteer company which
has traded for a piece of
brand new equipment.
Present plans are to house
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Arrangements Set For Spook Parade
Two juniors at Donegal
high school have been select-
ed as the Halloween King and
Queen for this year’s Hallow-
een parade in Mount Joy.
They are: Sherry Drager
and Thomas O'Conner. The
two will be honored Satur-
day night, October 28, by the
Mount Joy Lions at the An-
nual Halloween parade.
This year’s parade wiil
form at 6:30 p.m. and move
at 7 p.m. All persons interest-
in entering the march are
aksed to be on South Market
street near Memorial Park
at 6:30 or soon afterwards.
Any member of the local
Lions will be able to direct
participants to their respec-
tive places in the parade line-
up.
Persons living
along the
parade route are asked by
the Lions to light up the
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Trick or Treat
Night on Oct. 31
Trick or treat night in
Mount Joy this year will be
Tuesday, October 31.
PROMOTED
Jacob L. Flowers, 18, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin C.
Flowers, 56 West Donegal St.,
was promoted to Army Spec-
ialist four on Oct. 6 in Viet-
nam, where he is serving with
the 68th Medical Group.
Spec. Flowers, a radio op-
erator in the group’s Head-
quarters Detachment near
Long Binh, entered the Army
in December, 1966
Shetters Hurt in Crash
Park S. Shetter, 367 south
Market avenue, is a patient
in the Silver Spring, Md,
Holy Cross hospital, suffering
with injuries received in a
serious auto accident Satur-
day evening, Oct. 21, at
nearby Colesville.
Mr. and Mrs.
been visiting with
Shetter had
relatives
‘Of This and That’
For eleven years, each time
we would pass the entrance
to the trail that leads up to
the top of “Governor Dick”
mountain, someone in the
car was likely to say, ‘“Let’s
stop and hike to the top of
Gov. Dick!”
But the time never seemed
quite right. Last Sunday,
however, after a mid-day
lunch, we decided the time
had come. The weather was
perfect—cool enough for a
hike but warm enough to be .
comfortable. And there was
added incentive that the fall
color would be beautiful on iE
the mountain.
Imagine our surprise! As
we neared Mount Gretna and
Governor Dick, the traffic
became very heavy — not
exactly bumper to bumper,
but almost. When we round-
ed a curve near the entrance
to the footpath, we saw cars
Teaching on Guam
Teaching on the Island of
Gaum this year is John W.
Heisey formerly of Mount
Joy.
Guam is “Where America’s
Day Begins’, being the fur-
ther most outpost of the
Trust Territories of the U. S.
The island, 32 miles long and
four to eight miles wide, has
a population of about 80,000
inhabitants.
The native language for lo-
cal people is Chamorro, and
most are bilingually skilled
in English as well. Guam has
29 schools and a liberal arts
college. John W. Heisey is
teaching at George Washing-
ton Senior High school in the
village of Mongilao, Guam.
by the editor's wife
parked on both sides of the
road for a half mile or so.
People were walking along
the roadside, and a local po-
liceman was directing traffic
and parking!
We had happened onto a
phenomenon we didn’t know
existed! On a pretty after-
noon in October, EVERY-
BODY hikes to the top of
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Siiiimiiia
Friday. October 27
Columbia at S-town
Saturday, October 28
Ephrata at Conestoga Valley
Solanco at Donegal
Hempfield at Warwick
Manheim Central at Manheim
Township
in Virginia, enjoying the fall
weather and foliage and
were enroute on Road 29 in-
to Baltimore, where they
planned to spend the night.
However, another driver,
who later was charged by
police with driving under the
influence of intoxicants,
turned left into the right side
of the Shetter car.
The Mount Joy couple and
their car were knocked some
180 feet before coming to
rest in a grass field down a
slight incline.
An ambulance was called
by passersby and police came.
The Shetters were taken
to the hospital. She was giv-
en x-ray examinations but
not detained. However, she
was badly shaken and suf-
fered multiple bruises. The
next day she was brought to
Mount Joy by relatives.
Her husabnd, however, suf-
fered a fractured right eitow,
fractured pelvis and some
internal injuries. He is in
Room 504, Holy Cross hos-
pital, 1500 Forest Glen Rd.
Silver Spring, Md., 20910.
Doctors told members of the
family that he will be there
for from 3 to 6 weeks.
The car was badly dJdam-
: aged.
COIN CLUB TO MEET
The Mount Joy-Florin Coin
club will hold its Octobir
meeting on Thursday, Oet.
26, at 524 Bruce Avenue, be-
ginning at 7:30 p.m.
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® An Editorial
Have you been talking with vour friends, relatives
and neighbors about how you will vote on November
7 about the borough manager question?
If not, you should be thinking about the question
which will appear on the ballot and which you
as
a
responsible citizen of Mount Joy, should be consider-
ing.
As a responsible citizen you should not mzke a
quick, snap judgment on the matter. You should con-
sider the problem in some depth.
After all, this is the first time in many many years
that the citizens of Mount Joy have been offered an
opportunity to express themselves on such an import-
ant matter. It is a rare opportunity being extended to
the community. It is an opportunity to ask borough
council to take a step forward in local government.
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