NE By R.A.R, Ground was broken last week for the new vo-tech school and a huge, earth- moving machine made a cere- monial pass across the site, ®e © o ~ This week, however, ma- chines were roaring lustily and workmen swarmed over the area. Huge mounds of earth — one of the signs of construction — are growing daily and truck loads of pipe and other materials are ar- riving on the lot. ® oo eo Monday night during a lull’ in the activities at the Democrat party convention, when Chet and David were making small talk to fill a gap, I thought, “What would I do if I should happen to meet one of those fellows, face to face, in some public place—like an elevator?” ® oO o Would I speak? Would I nod? Would I smile? Would I treat him as another strang- er and give no hint that I recognized his face? ® ® P The fact is, both of these fellows seem to be old old friends that I have known for a long long time—per- haps 20 years, on and off. ® ® ® I have looked them straight in the eye hundreds of times and they have looked me straight in the eye. I have had them in my home hun- dreds ‘of times. I laugh with them, sympathize with them when and if they may have an opinion, or I nod my head in complete agree- ment—if I agree. ® © @ We seem to sit around my home in complete informali- ty, comfortable as an old shoe, almost like members of one family. ee © o I've wirtually been with them when they have had their moments of triumph and glory and I've been there when they have made their little boo boos. ® © © Yes, they're old friends but I still don’t know just what etiquette says I should do, or not do, when I meet (Turn to page 2) The Mount Joy BULLETIN Mount Joy's ONLY Newspaper VOL. 68. NO. 13. Tentative Date Set to Break School Ground Tentatively, ground wil} be broken Wednesday after- noon, - Sept. 4, for the new Donegal School District ele- mentary school north of Marietta. The time will be 4:30 p.m. Arrangements for ground breaking are caged by cer- tain requirements. On one side there are state legal papers which are necessary to be signed. On the other is a provision that contractors must begin work within a very few days after the sign- ing. Thus, if there are to be formalities, they must be ar- ranged for the brief interval between. The problem eof setting an exact date in advance is complicated by the uncer- tainty about when the papers will be signed. Supervising Principal R. F. Hallgren said this week that the Sept. 4 date now looks as if it will be satisfactory. The new school site is lo- cated immediately east of the Donegal = Mutual Insurance corner and of the new Mari- etta Congregational Menno- nite church. ‘Rev. Bernhard Church Honors A farewell dinner and party honored Rev. Howard W. Bernhard Sunday noon as he delivered his final ser- mon at the Florin Church of the Brethren. . He and Mrs. Bernhard are leaving Mount Joy to accept a call to serve a church at Loysburg, Pa. Following t h e Sunday morning service at which he presided, the congregation held a dinner and as a token of affection presented him with a purse. ‘Of This and That’ Mount Joy is becoming a cultural center again! We reported several months ago that an old newspaper, in describing Mount Joy, with its literary clubs, little colleges, and fine schools said that it was ‘‘quite a cul- tural center” in the 19th cen- tury. Well, it bids fair to begin to enjoy that distinction a- gain!’ It has continued to have good schools all these years, but the “little colleges” are a thing of the past. But, in the past few years it has opened a fine little library, a vo-tech school is in the making, Mount Joy's Band Parents Meeting The Donegal Band Parents Club will meet on Monday, evening, Sept. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the high school cafeteria. THIS ISSUE -- Two Sections 20 PAGES by the editor's wife Memorial Day Art Show at- fracts wide interest, a class in ceramics is being taught by Mrs. Frank Hassinger, and now a studio for instruc- tion in painting and drawing is to be opened by Mrs. Jas. Phillips. We are proud of Mt. Joy! : * * * Because of illness in the Indiana part of our family, there has been an unusual a- mount of traveling from Mount Joy to the Hoosier state this summer. In June, the {travel was with our Airstream travel trailer — a leisurely, luxur- ious two-day trip out to In- diana, with two more days back to Pennsylvania. In July, it was a hurried, harried overnight trip on the Penn-Central, just 13 hours from Lancaster to Indianap- olis. In August, other members of the family made a ‘“before- dawn to -before-dusk’ trio out by car, also in just 13 hours! How do the three modes of transportation compare? We think it is interesting how very different they are! (Turn to page 4) — Devoted to the Best Interest and Welfare of Mount Joy MOUNT JOY, PENNA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1968 SEVEN CENTS Break Ground for Vo-Tech School While a mammoth earth moving machine stood by waiting, ceremonial shovelsful of turned by hand Thursday August 22, to begin official construction vocational - technical of Mount Joy's school. On a 106-acre tract located immedi- ately north of the borough, two years turned to muscle work and within the next few months to educate of paper planning a school designed diesel - driven for use. earth were afternoon, who made The ilar schools Gerlach, more schools. than 500 boys and girls will be ready In fact, he turned one of the full of earth. ceremony, which was one of three held Thursday afternoon for sim- Among the most interested specta- tors were Joseph and Helen Breneman, available the tract of land. shovels at Brownstown and at Wil- low Street, was in charge of Dr. Harry county He superintendent of presided at a red, white (Turn to page 3) FIVE DAY Weather Forecast From The Harrisburg Weather Bureau Aug. 29 - Sept. 2 Temperatures are expec- ted to average below nor- mal. The daytime high is to be mostly in the 70s, with overnight lows in the upper 40’s north, and the upper 50’s, south. It will be cool throughout the per- iod. Little day to. day change is expected. There is little or no sign of pre- cipitation indicated. Nor- mal high for the Harris- burg area is 82 and the normal low, 61. Youth Critical At Hospital Jesse Mooney, 15-year-old son. of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mooney, Columbia R1l, re- mains in the Allentown hos- pital, Allentown, Pa. this week after he collasped sud- denly Thursday of last week. He underwent cranial sur- gery for removal of a blood clot and remains in critical condition. A junior at Donegal high school, young Mooney was at Camp Skymount near Green Lane, Montgomery county, Pa., when he was stricken. He has been un- conscious since. Thursday noon he left with the Donegal Indians football squad for a week's football camp but there had been no physical player con- tact prior to the collapse. The youth, schoolmen were told, had been suffering head- aches prior to the opening of pre-season football drills on August 19. Mooney was taken to the Bucks Grandview hospital at Sellersville in Bucks county and later transferred to Al- lentown. Mr. and Mrs. Mooney, his parents, have been spending most of their time in Allen- town since the incident. The family lives on the Marietta - Lancaster pike. Football statistics list the young athlete as a junior candidate for a running back position on the grid squad. He stands 5-8 and weighs 135 pounds. The home is a lucrative target for the burglar, ac- cording to Liberty Mutual Insurance Companies, which says that stolen property val- ue in each home burglary av- erages $227 taken in the av- erage commercial theft. Thanksgiving can be more meaningful—if you have a nest egg of U. S. Savings Bonds and Freedom Shares. Schools Set for Opening The Donegal School Dis- trict is preparing to open schools for the 1968-68 school year in the following fashion: Friday, Aug. 30 will be the first day for all teachers new to the Donegal Schools this year. This will be the sec- ond orientation day pro- gram scheduled for new teachers at Donegal. The program will consist of an explanation of school poli- cies and procedures, a bus tour of the school district, a lunch with school district administrators and school members, and preparation time for the teachers with their own building principal in their assigned building during the afternoon. noon. All of the teachers in the Donegal School District will be returning for two in-ser- vice days on Tuesday, Sept. 3 and Wednesday, Sept. 4. The program for these two days has been planned for teachers to receive instrue- tions and information on the school plans and program for the gear, = time for pre- paration for the opening of school for students and a workshop with Dr. Gary Anderson of the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Anderson will discuss “Teaching Pupils to Read Critically’ and “The Teach- ing of Study Skills by the Content Teacher.” There will also be time provided for reports on the Lancaster County Curriculum Work- shops held in: August. Students in the Donegal schools will return to school for the 1968-69 year on Thursday, Sept. 5. ° Schools (Turn to page 4) Boro Completes Purchase Hopefully, Mount Joy's new borough building will begin taking shape within the next few weeks! With attorneys and bor- ough officials taking part in the transaction, ownership Given Degrees At Millersville Three Mount Joy area stu- dents received degrees from Millersville State college on Friday, August 23. Bachelor degrees were a- warded to: Barbara Fulks, R. D. 2, Box 94: and Thomas Heisey, 343 West Donegal Street, and M. Joanne Newcom- er, R.’D.'2, Bex 138 're- ceived a master of education degree in elementary educa- tion. A total of 172 bachelor de- grees and 44 master degrees were awarded. The commencement speak- er was Theodore McKelvin, former governor of Maryland and mayor of Baltimore. é Three to Enter E'town College Three local residents are among 406 students who will enroll in the freshman class at Elizabethtown college this fall. They are: Lancelot C. Knight, Mt. Joy R2. F. Vicki Little, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Little, 215 Park Avenue, Mount Joy. (Turn to page 4) of the former Acme store building on Main street, was transferred a few days ago to Mount Joy. Papers were signed in the office of a Lancaster attorney and the borough now is ready to begin making alter- ations to convert the big building to its proposeed uses. Detailed plans for convert- ing the room have been drawn and as swiftly as pos- sible, papers will be drawn and bids will be advertised. The front of the building is to have a face-lifting job which will give a look sim- ilar to the former Acme building on north Queen street in Lancaster near the old Pensupreme property. A colonial look will featured. On the interior, the front section of the room will pro- vide office space and ihe back will have parking, stor- age and work space for bor- ough-owned vehicles. The two areas will be separated by a fire wall, Geeorge Groff chairman of the borough council’s' building commitiee said. : The building will replace the old borough ‘sheds, locat- eed on Henry street between south Market and Comfort alley. be BOROUGH COUNCIL MEETING The September meeting of the Mount Joy Borough Council will be held Mon- day night, Sept. 9, instead of the usual first Monday of the month. The change has been made because the date conflicts with Labor Day
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