ce ———— A SA A Bv R.A.R. Maybe you saw it! Thurs- day afternoon shortly before 4 p.m. there was a rainbow in the western sky. And — there was no rain in the vicinity. #® ® Oo This is not a joke. A Mount Joy man who works in Lancaster was coming up Road 230, saw it, stopped to call it to our attention and we went outside to sce. There it was—plain as any- thing. About the time the rain- bow was visible over Mt. Joy, frantic workmen east of the borough were struggling with a modern-day mess which had disrupted telephone and television transmission over a rather wide area. ® e @ At the site of a new over- pass, immediately north of Paul’s Trailer Sales, a dyna- mite charge about 1:30 p.m. had shattered open a coaxil cable which carries hundreds of circuits. ® ® ® Mount Joy people attenipt- ing to place long-distance calls either east or west found that service was badly disrupted even into the night. Television people apologized for picture quality as emerg- ency and rerouting circuits were brought into play. ® J ¢ Workmen were using a drill and dynamite in the area of the cable, working toward installing a drain needed for the extensive con- struction in the area of the new interchange at the join- ing of the new bhypass and the present Route 230. 2 $ 2? If men had no faith in each other, we would all have to live within our in- come. @ @® ® Work on the new borough building is progressing. \d @ ® New overhead doors have been installed on the north end of the former Acme Market building and work- men have begun erecting a concrete fire wall about one third of the way back to sep- arate the garage portion of the building and the offices. ® ® ® The matter of installing a plague somewhere in. or con the building, showing when it was remodeled into a bor- ough building has been rais- ed. ® ® @ We vote for installing such a marker. A couple of coun- cilmen are “cool” toward the idea. Unless some kind of permanent information is at- tached to the building, it will not be long before people will wonder whether it was 1969 or 1959 that the build- ing was made into a borough facility. @ @® @ Such details, perhaps con- sidered minor by some, are important and become part of the borough’s history—-his- tory which tends to be lost after fewer years than most of us would like to admit. ® & ® Out on the wind-swept vo- tech school site, brick layers are putting up walls under those -plastic weather-protec- tors which can be seen stick- ing up at two or three places around the grounds. THIS ISSUE -- Two Sections 20 PAGES THE MOUNT JOY Mount Joy's ONLY Newspaper — Devoted to the Best Interest and Welfare of Mount Joy = 2 © VOL. 68. NO. 32 Mayor Frank Walter, MOUNT JOY, PENNA.,, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15. 1959 with Mount Joy Jaycee President, Pat Moran, after he had signed the proclamation introduc- ing National Jaycee Week, being observed next week. The Jaycees plan to emphasize the following projects in the Mount Joy community in 1969: Gourmet ‘Meal-a-Month’ Club, Seventy-five Plus Banquet, Memorial Day Beef Fes- tival, Flag Rentals, Miss Mount Joy Pageant, Orphans Shop- ping Tour, the Cove Park, and a Christmas Lighting Con- test. Begin Plans The 1969 Memorial Day parade in Mount Joy wiil be held Saturday, May 31. Announcement of the aate was made Wednesday night, January 8, by Arthur Zer- phey, president of the Mount Joy Community Council, which sponsors the Memor- ial Day activities each year. The council was holding its January meeting in the fire hall. Zerphey said that he has named James Gingrich and Henry Zerphey as co-cliair- men of the event, which is the highlight of the patrictic observance which in recent years has stretched over a three-day period. for Parades Council President Zerphey himself will be general chair- man of the observance. Announcement also made that the Council hold a chicken barbecue April 5. Harry Stumpf be chairman. Zerphey also announced that Charles Ashenfelter will be chairman this year of the “music in the Park” series, also sponsored by the coun- cil, and held in Memorial Park. To fiance the Memorial Day parade, the council plans to make a community- wide salicitation of funds to meet the $2,500 budgct which has been set up. Was will on will Authority Picks Grissinger Bernerd Grissinger, 204 Fark avenue, has been eiect- ed chairman of the Mount Joy Borough Authority, suc- ceeding B. Titus Rutt. The new head of the Au- thority was named Tuesday night, Jan. 7, as the board held its annual reorganiza- tion meeting. - Grissinger was named {o the board originally in Jan- uary of 1962, succeeding John Toppin. He has been Vietnam Honors Mount Joy Man U. S. Air Force Sergeant Ronald L. Cooke, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd G. Cooke of 227 N. Market Ave., has been honored by the Repub- lic of Vietnam. Sergeant Cooke has been awarded the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry: The sergeant, now at Scott AFB, I1l.,, was cited for his outstanding service to the Vietnamese Armed Forces during his combat tour at Da Nang AB, Vietnam. The ra- dio operator supported aliied ground forces engeged in heavy contact with the en- emy in and around the City of Hue. serving as vice-chairman. Rutt, who has served the Authority long and well, in- cluding several years as the chairman, reached the end of his term on January 1st and various members of the Authority and of the DBor- ough Council had sought to prevail upon him to accept another five-year appoint- ment. However, for personal reasons he declined and to bolster his wish he sent Bor- ough Council a letter last week asking that his name not be placed in nomination. Council appointed Joseph Dolan. Other officers named by the Authority at its January meeting included: Frank Eichler, vice-cihair- man; Kenneth Gainer, secre- tary; Frank Zink, treasurer, and Dolan, assistant secre- tary and assistant treasurer: The Elm Tree P.T.A. will meet in the all-purpose room of the school, Monday, Janu- ary 20. Devotions will be led by Paul Newcomer, to be fol- Jowed by a program by the Lamplighters Quartet. Room visitation will be held at 7 o'clock by the Lamplighters at ‘7:30 pm. SEVEN CEN¥S - Basketball View Looks Good From Top Of Heap The view from the top is magnificient ! And, that’s the spot from which the Donegal In- dians and their wildly rejoicing fans are viewing the County basketball lcague this week. With a pair of fancy wins — Friday over Columbia and Tuesday over Elizabethtown — plus an assist from Ephrata, the Tribe holds onto undisputed first place in Section L Friday night, Jan. 10, Donegal bounced back hard to stop the Tide of Columbia, 63 - 36. The same night undefeated Hempfield was tripped up by Ephrata, leaving number one place to the Indians, Death Comes To Jas. Shaeffer Word was received in Mt. Joy Wednesday morning, Jan 15, of the sudden death in Chicago of James L. Shaeffer, 70 East Main street. Employed in Chicago, he had been joined there this past weekend by Mrs. Shac- fer, owner of Kitty's Dress Shop, who had planned to spend a few days vacation. He had not been feeling well and was planning to en- ter the hospitla for a check- up.. However, deaths came suddenly Tuesday night. Extremely active in the af- fairs of the American Legion, he servea as commander of the Waiter S. Ebersole Post in 1943 He was 53 years of age. His business career had been with the American Oil com- (Turn to page 8) FIVE DAY Weather Forecast From The Harrisburg Weather Bureau Thursday through Monday January 16 - 21 Temperatures for the 5- day period from Thursday through Monday are expec- ted to average near nor- mal. Daytime highs will be in the mid 30's. There will be little day-to-day change. Night time low in the mid-20’s. Precipitation may total greater than 1 water equivalent, oc- curing as rain likely over the week end. 15," Tuesday, Jan. 14, Donegal swamped the Bears of Eliza- bethtown, 78 - 46, while Hempfield came back strong to rap Manheim Township, 9 to 67. The test — the battle for red blood of survival comes Tuesday nite, Jan. 21, when Donegal meets Hempfield on the Knights’ home floor in Landisville. Donegal stands 5 - 0 while the Knights are 4 - 1. Tuesday night, it was the nine field goals and three of three free tosses by McCow- in which showed the way. But Stan Tucker was a big man with the nets, counting 16. Sload had 13 and Sutter managed 11. Donegal managed a 16 - 13 quarter advantage as the Bears fought hard. But, in the seond period, the Tribe stepped out and at the inter- mission led 38 to 22. E'town outscored Donegal by three points in the third, but the fourth was all for the winners, the Indians pouring through 22 points while the Bears counted 9. In the preliminary, E-town JV’s won, 51 to 45. The Columbia victory was a sweet win for Donegal, for as the years roll by, Tide is one of the strongest rivals on the entire sched- ule. The 63 - 36 score however, fails to reflect anything ex- cept the final outcome. In the first period, Coinm- bia grabbed a big 13-6 advan- tage. And at the half, it was still 24 to 19, although Don- egal had been creeping up. But, after the intermission, whatever kind of injection of dynamite Coach Keener gave his lads in the locker room began to take effect. The next two periods were (Turn to page 2) the Jaycees to Observe ‘Week’ Tues., Jan. 14 Mount Joy Jaycees visited the Mount Joy Rotary Club. Jim Thorbahn, a past President Mount Joy Jaycees, was the speaker for the din- ner meeting held at Hostetters Dining Hall. Sun., Jan. 19; Jaycees plan to visit their President's church (Saint Mary's) in Marietta, Pa: Mon., Jan. 20; The Third Annual Bosses Nite Banquet is to be held at the Watering Trough. Bosses will be entertained and special Jaycee community pro- jects will be explained. Bob Koser, chairman of the event, will award the second ‘Boss of the Year’ Award to one of the attending bosses. Tues., Jan. 21: The Mount Joy Jaycees will be the guests of the Mount Joy National Cash Register plant and will include a trip through plant. Wed., Jan, 22: the new The Jaycees will present a book to the local library as well as a free flag contract for the coming year. Fri., Jan 24: The flags will be displayed along Main Street in honor of the founding of the Jaycees. Sat., Jan. 25 The 12th Annual Distinguished Service Award Banquet will be held at the Mount Joy American Legion, This is the highlight of the week when an active young man between 21 and 36 years of age will be given an award for his “BEE gervice to the community, PERE « H
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