nt R. A. R. Mount Joy is bustling with construction these days! eo oO oo To begin to enumerate all the new house starts right now wou'd be the starting of a lengthy list. In addition there are at least two com- mercial projects which we do want to mention. ® ® © At the Spangler mill on north Market street, on land recently purchased to add to the miil another huge stor- age tank is being erected. ® ® © Steel workers by the weekend will be practically finished with the job. This is the third giant-size tank pushed against Mount -Joy’s skyline within the past couple of years by Spang- ler. ® o o Out on the Mariefta pike, ground has been broken for a big big addition at Done- gal Industries. ®e © © The floor s'ze of the build- ing will be more than doub- led to accomodate the tre- mendous flow of work going through that busy plant. ® ® © Much of the space will be storage. shipping and ware- housing area. But these projects are the visible evidence of a thriv- ing commun’ty which virtu- ally is bursting at its seams. ® ® © Down the pike, at the site of the new NCR plant things are shaping up fast. td ® © Friends from out of state were in Mount Joy a few days ago and they “oh’d” and ‘“ah’d” at the new in- dustrial development. ® ® o Specifically, one of the things they noted about the NCR grounds is the use of the huge limestone boulders as part of the developing landscape. ® ® © “There are businesses in the midwest,” they said, “which are doing a hustling business, using huge boulders which they truck into their areas for industrial and resi- dential landscaping.” ® © © We're glad to report that the two railroad bridges which needed repairs so very badly have been patch- ed and are in good shape now! ® © © One of the hundreds of spectators at the Marietta horse show Sunday after- noon was Governor Shafer. whose daughter was one of the contestants. ® © © Although it was a per- : sonal, family outing for the chief administrator, he was gracious with autographs for the small fry and coopera- tive and gracious for those whe wished to click a snap- shot. .® ee 2 It is reported that tho floor timbers on the Market street bridge are loose and that - when heavy vehicles cross, they move and crack open the: blacktopping ma- terial. ® © © It also is reliably reported that the PennCentral has an idea to close the Comfort ‘alley bridge. eo © 6 MWe noted with apprecia- tion that on Monday night the Friendship Fire companv and the Florin company were (Turn to page 7) : car and. edge-tool Mount Joy's ONLY Newspaper VOL. 67. NO. 48. HONOR BANQUET The annual Honor Banquet at Donegal high school will be held Friday, May 10, in the high school cafeteria. Students who have made the Honor Roll three of the five marking periods will be hon- ored. The event is sponsored by the Donegal chapter of the National Honor Society. The invoeation will be giv- en by Kathleen Shoemaker. Following dinner, R. F. Hall- gren, Jr, supervising prin- cipal, John Hart, Donald Drenner and Dr. Ralph Cole- man will make brief re- marks. Miss Nancy Rolfs will in- troduce the entertainment for the evening. The Singer Family will perform. The Singers, Alberta and George, and their four children are all musically gifted and not only play a variety of instru- ments but also sing. Awards will then be pre- sented by Miss Lily E. Mar- tin and Mrs. James Peraro, advisors to the National Hon- or Society. Certificates will be presented to all the stu- dents and the seniors will receive pins. These pins in- dicate the number of years the student attended the ban- quet. NAME STAFF Editor-in-chief and assist- ing editors for the Donegai high school Tribe News’ have been named for the 1968-69 school year by Mrs. Dorothy Hershey, journalism instruc- tor. John Presto, son of Mr, and Mrs. John Presto, of 346 Delta street, will head the staff as chief editor. Assisting will be: Libby Rainbolt, first page editor; Patty Way, Teresa Wagner and Lane Ellis, page editors; Kathy Hean, typing editor, and Deb Halstead, ex- change editor. The retiring editorial staff, headed by Mary Ann Hall- gren and Donna Eshleman, published its last ‘Tribe News” this week. The new staff will take up its duties with the next issue in two weeks. THIS ISSUE -- Two Sections 24 PAGES The Mount Joy EY - v= CAN) O : Devoted to the Best Interest and Welfare of Mount Joy MOUNT JOY, PENNA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1968 w ( YU W - SEVEN CENTS Seek Solution to Boro's Police Problem Mount Joy borough moved a step in the direction of em- ploying a police patrolman this week as it raised offic- ers’ wages and one applicant for a job was recommended. At their May meeting, held Monday night in Friendship Fire hall, Borough Council- men voted to increase start- ing patrolmen’s wages to $5,000. At the same time, the Civil Service commission recom- mended a Lancaster resident who is a candidate for a job opening in Mount Joy. He is age 48 and has been on dis- ability retirement from the Penn Central railroad. The borough's police staff of three men — a chief and two patrolmen — has been short one officer for many months and the Civil Service commission, which is charg- Wood Street How the borough will ap- proach the Wood street im- provement project this sum- mer will be decided, Thursday night, May 9! At its Monday night, reg- ular session, Borough Coun- cii opened the single bid which was submitted and Plan Three-Day Art Show The Mount Joy Art Show, to be held in conjunction with the annual observance of Memorial Day, will take place on May 30-31, June 1 in the Eshleman building. "There will be classes for oil, water color, sculpture, graphics and crafts, and ex- hibits should be framed or matted and brought to the Eshleman building on May 28 from 2 to 5 pm. They will be judged May 29. Mrs. James Phillips, chair- man for the show, says that “sitters’” are needed for the show, and anyone interested may call her. Exhibitors are asked to bring their own easels whenever possible, GETS TURKEY Martin Miller, west Wood street, and his brother, Phar- es Miller, were in Potter County over the weekend and each shot a bearded {ur- key gobbler early Monday morning. One weighed 18 pounds and the other 21V2 pounds. Martin was proudly exhibiting colored Poloroid snapshots this week of the fine birds. ‘Of This and Mount Joy, then as now, was a good place to live! Jack Loose, social studies teacher at Donegal high school, sent us the following clipping from the Lancaster Daily Express of March 17, 1857. It is so interesting that we reprint it in full: “Mount Joy Affairs: An attentive correspondent fur- nishes us with some interest- ing items relative to the pro- gress and improvement of this flourishing town, which speaks well for the enterprise and liberality, as well as the intellectual developmen of the citizens. . “It has: now in successful operation - three foundries, a manufact- ory, and a steam saw mill; four -dry-goods ‘stores; three saddlery shops; two cabinet- ‘maker shops; and three .ho- tels; five churches, five com- “mon schools, a female semin- That’ by the editor's wife ary, an academy for males -—both the latter being in a flourishing condition and possession an excellent and extended reputation. “There are, also, a Savings Institution, and a new mark- et house—both regarded as great public conveniences. Last summer there were a- bout a dozen large two-story brick dwelling houses erect- ed, together with a large number of new and substan- tial frame buildings, and a large number will be erect- ed during the ensuing sea- son. ‘Among the improve- ments to be put up this spring there will be a large steam. flouring mill, Which will ‘add materially to- the ‘importance and trade of the town as well as the conven- ience of the citizens. The members of the Bethel church are- also taking meas- ures for the erection of a (Turn to page 3) Bids Tonight took it under advisement. Thursday, at 3 reconvened session, after engineers have studied the situat.on, coun- cilmen will decide what por- tion or portions of the total improvement will be done in 1968. B. R. Kreider, Manheim R 1, was the lone bidder, submitting a price of $63.- 964.69 for the entire job— from Chocolate avenue to the old Farm Bureau prop- erty. Other sections of the work were in decreasing amounts.- The smallest sec- tion of work would cost the borough $34,146.53: if the bd is accepted. One councilman raised the question about whether it is wise to let a contract on the strength of only one bid. As it considered other street work for 1968, council agreed to receive specifica- tions and bids for giving north Barbara street a coat- ing of slurry seal. It was hoped that bids could be asked and received in time for the council's June meeting. The work us- ually is not done until in July. ed with the responsibility of nominating candidates, has had difficulty finding appli- cants. In the meantime, part-time officers have been filling in the gaps. Council set patrolmen’s top wage at 6,000 and specified the chief's salary to start at $6,000 with a top over a per- iod of five years of $7,250. Part-time officers are to be paid at the rate of $2 per hour. In other business Monday night, councii: —Gave Borough Author- ity authority to arrange for furnishing water and sewer to the proposed, new vo-tech school, north of the borough us‘ng its policy of providing services to properties which have any portion, however small, inside the borough limits. —Heard that correction of a low-pressure water situa- tion on ‘the’ hill” in the Florin area would cost up- ward to $80,000. —A preliminary report on a rodent ordinance which is being prepared. —A complaint from the borough garbage collectors that there are people putting garbage in improper con- tainers, despite an ordinance which specifies what * type cans are to be used. —Approved $112 with which to buy materials for erecting a backstop at the upper ball diamond in the borough park. —That liens are being prepared against property owners along Main street who have not paid their sidewa'k construction bills following the rebuilding of (Turn to page 3) Clean-Up Paint-Up Week Next week is Clean-Up, Paint-Up Week in Mourit Joy! The special week is sponsored by the Mount Joy Chamber of Commerce to call attention to the annual need to spruce up after the winter season, Cleaning, painting and fixing up is part of the usual chores but the Chamber wants to add what em- phasis it can to the importance of keeping Mount Joy beautiful. It is pointed out that very shortly Mount Joy will be having hundreds of out-of-town visitors for the an- nual Memorial Day parade and then begins the season when travelers and visitors pass through the borough by the thousands. In the above picture, Chamber of Commerce Di- rector Ray Wiley is talking with his business neigh- the 1968 bor, Gene Eicherly, about week. clean-up fix-up
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