Ee a — WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1969 T "TIN MC T Christ ) 'HE BULLETINMOUNT JOY. PA. PAGE SEVEN iristmas 1oliday trip by and gave to her father the @ CHURCH NOTES travel trailer to Wiliams. A he oe was Se is RR Ee (From page 9) burg, Va. They also visited dent. Jamestown, Chincoteague Is- Mrs. Hayles 8 itte MA 0 4 u Mr ayles had written Loren Rahe. land, saw the wild ponies, President Nixon, congratula- YT WN NEWS NOTES Tuesday crossed the Chesapeake Bay ting him on his election, and 7:30 pm. LCW, Circle 2 on the new tunnel.bridge, telling him that she had Miss Grace Henderson will meet in Parish House. and stopped at Mount Vern- helped in a small way. Wednesday on and Washington, D. C, . ‘sr 1:00 p.m. LCW, Circle 1 enroute. > ; : Randy Houseal celebrated That was quite a hike every will Theet at the home of * * * The winter of 1968-69 has his 9th birthday anniversary day, especially through the Mrs. Floy Gilbert. Susi 3 taken many good people January 25. deep Snow. Thursday » pealeing Washington, from our midst. : Ernest Wallander, Sr., who The Rev. Glenn Miller, pas- 7:00 pum. Confirmation rs. Bessie ayles, Presby.- One of these, Annie Blen- Was hospitalized because of tor of Reich's E. C. Church Class. terian Home, received a singer, took a very special pneumonia has returned was the song leader at Lie beautiful colored postcard part in the First Presbyter. home and is convalescing. caster County Christian So recently from President ian church here. For almost Lou Tressler is a surgical deavor birthday party last Mount Joy Mennonite Church Henry W. Frank, Pastor Sunday 9:00 a.m Sunday School. 10:00 a.m. Worship Service Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Midweek Bible Study and Prayer Meeting. John’s Luthkerax Church Maytown, Pennsylvania Ronald E. Peiprson, pastor Sunday 9:30 a.m. Church school. 10:45 a.m. Worship service. St. ~ St. Marys Roman Catholic Church ‘Sunday 9:00 a.m. Mass God's Missionary Church Salunga, Penna. Rev. John F. White, Pastor 10:45 a.m. Morning Wor- ship 7:00 p.m. Youth Meeting 7:30 p.m. Revival hour Tuesday 7:30 p.m. Prayer Meeting and Bible Study. Florin Church of Brethren Mount Joy. Pa. Jacob F. Replogle, Pasto Sunday 9:00 a.m. Sunday Schoal. 10:00 a.m. Morning Wor- ship. ‘Thy Kingdom Come But - -. Monday 7:30 p.m. Church Board Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Midweek Service Thursday 7:00 p.m. Junior Choir 7:45 p.m. Senior Choir -®@ Main Street : (From page 1) stickers. ; The new plan began opera- tion Saturday, Feb. 1. ® © ° At Donegal high school, the first act of business every morning is an announcement of vital’ information. @ ® © The announcement, typic- ally, says, ‘This is school day number 2.” : ®e © © That means that today the school will have Friday clas ses. # ®e © However, for the . rest of the world, it may mean Mon- day, the very first days of the work week. ® @ ® It's a new and confusing wrinkle in education which guarantees that when school is missed for any reason (va- eations, teachers’ - institutes, snow, etc) the class schedule ‘is not disrupted. Nou Tif ee © © The idea is that if in the pature of things the pupils should happen to miss three Thursdays, say, they will not be shortened in the educa- tional scheme of things in the subjects which are taught on Thursdays. 4% Of This (From page 1) re Fo Cape Kennedy: . -o detox “We were bout” 5 miles away at the time of the blast-off,”’ - Mrs. Bates told us, ‘and watched it across a body of water. It was really. exciting! We got some won- derful: slides and sna wots.” an island just off the Gulf: eoast, and had plenty of time to relax and soak up the warm, sputhern sun. + } * * * = Mr: and Mrs. ‘Gene _New- eomer and sons Bradley and Brian , had -a fascinating, Richard M. Nixon. It was a family portrait, and showed the beautiful crewel em- briodered emblem which one of the daughters made Over The Back Fence By Max Smith FOLKS who are fortunate enough to have a fireplace in their home, and who store any wood in the house for any length of time, might be on the alert for bugs or beet- les that will hatch out of the wood. Wood attracts several species of beetles during the winter, and such insects would not normally emerge until spring, but when the wood is stored in the warm house for several weeks at a time, the beetles will come out. Most of these beetles are harmless to the home but are a nuisance; the prob- lem can be prevented by not storing the wood in the house for more than several days before use. ONE THING worse than not having a fire extinguisher is having one and not knowing how to use it, or have one that will not work. Once a fire starts it is too late to read instructions or try to get the equipment to work. Now that the winter season is here and all crops, live. stock, and machinery are stored in the farm buildings it is especially important that all extinguishers be in good condition = and that every member of the family knows how to operate this ~impor- tant piece of equipment. Far- mers who do not have’ fire extinguishers should invest in one or more in order to protect their property. An- other suggestion from fire prevention authorities is to have the phone number of the fire company pested near all phones; minutes, and ev- en seconds, are very impor- tant in preventing the spread of any fire. WATER supplies are on the minds of many folks these days and I'd like to call at- tention to the quality of the water for both house and farm use. The question is posed, “Is it worthwhile to have soft water on the farm? Our engineers point out that the dairy utensils in the milk house will be easier and more economical to keep clean, and for the poultry- man, the eggs will clean easier with soft water. To the homemaker on the farm, the same regarding less detergents and advantages apply” 50 years she was in charge of seeing that pulpit flowers were in the church each Sun- day morning. Many times she arranged them herself from her own garden. Another, Elmer Heisey, has literally ‘‘left his mark” all over town, in the litile bronze markers embedded in sidewalks he constructed through the years. We heard him talk. about these mark- ers one time, and he was proud of them and of the good work he had done for many, many people. sk * i Yet another is Reuben Shellenberger, who was a fa- miliar figure on the streets of Mount Joy, and was al- ways ready with a soft hel- lo. He came into the Bul- letin office hundreds of times, to get extra Bulletins to take to friends or shut- ins. The last time was about 24 hours before he died. se * A reporji on the narcissus bulb which we mentioned last week: In ten short days the leaves have grown about 12 inches, and there are {two spikes with buds on them! It looks as if we will have blossoms, in spite of our un- orthodox handling of the bulb! : Patent in St. Joseph's_hospit- al. Mrs. Michael Gratch is convalescing at her home af. ter being hospitalized. Clarence smith is a patient in St. Joseph's hospital. He i3 slowly improving. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Wea- ver, Mount Joy, called on your correspondent last Sat. evening. Ralph Johns, Wrightsville, called on Mr. and Mrs. Har- ry Frank last Sunday. : Linda Houseal returned to Millersville State - College last Thursday. - Charles Harter, Pottstown, visited his sister, Miss Marie Harter last Tuesday. Dr. and Mrs, Richard Al bright, Philadelphia, an- nounce the birth of a daugh- ter. : The Maytown Youth Or- ganization will hold meetings regularly the fourth Tuesday of each month at the Legion Home. All members are urg- ed to attend. The former Fairview school house on the Elizabethtown Road, was razed last Satur- day. This has been a land- mark for many years. The Fire Company assisted by burning the inside and then the brick walls were pushed over. Your correspondent ‘taught there from 1917 - 1919. Saturday, Jan. 28 to Feb. 3, was Christian Endeavor week. Several members of the Boy Scout Troop had a camp- out at the Milton Grove Sportsmen's club last week- end. A turkey dinner was served to the boys and their fathers last Sunday. They were there from Friday night until Sunday. Fourteen members attend- ed 'the Fire Company Auxili- ary ‘meeting January 23. Mrs. Vernon Mayers, the - presi- dent, was in charge. They will serve a banquet to the Farm Women, Saturday, Mar- ch 15. Other projects were discussed but shelved until the next meeting. = Hostesses were Mrs. Frank Singer and Mrs. Clayton Sprout. Someone will probably vis- it you this week or next week to renew your Civic Associa- tion membership. Remember—Send or phone your news items to Mrs. Ray Fryberger before Sunday of each week. Phone 426-3304. SATURDAY NIGHT MOVIE Donegal Alumni Association will present the film, “4A Midsummer Night's Dream” this Saturday, Feb. 8, at the Beahm Junior High at 7:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served during the intermis- sion. The public is invited. Mysterious Inherited Birth Defect a miracle child. Every - mother thinks her child’ is special in some way, but Mrs. Bishop may have more reason than most. Mary came into- the world with a rare hereditary birth defect— so rare that it was four years before her parents found some- one able to diagnose it. The condition is Ellis-van ‘Creveld syndrome, and Mary suffers from its major effects, dwarfism and congenital heart disease. At birth, doctors doubted she would live more than six weeks. “We were told that if she survived she would have to be placed in an institution. She would never be able to lead a normal life,” Mrs. Bishop says. That was seven years ago. Today, Mary attends a public school in Hanover where she is a class leader, gets good grades and, despite her short stature, is very active at play. “She even helps with chores around the house,” Mrs. Bish- op says. “She’s a miracle child. She fooled the doctors.” Much of the credit for Mary's progress must go to the medi- cal team at the March of Dimes- financed Birth Defects Center at Boston Floating Hospital for Infants and Children. This team diagnosed Mary's condition and now supervises her care. She had undergone successful heart surgery at the same hospital before the center was estab- lished. Mrs. Bishop is very proud of her daughter's progress, but she can also tell a parallel story of tragedy in her family. soap required, easier on the “When Mary was born in hands, and results in im. October 1961 it was a great 0 ved hair-dos. In this® part” shock to us,” Muvs. Bishop re- PE the tat any wafer calls. “My. pregnancy was:nor- of - the. state. - many : mal; our first child, Dominica, supplies are high in calcium carbonate and" are classed as hard water. This kind of ‘wa. ter“can be hard - on heater coils over, a period’ of years. Folks. desiring to" learn © the hardness. of their: water the water softener dealers. == “Mary. bad: WE _STILL hear some’ discus- den on the length -of time that it should: take to “milk _ . €Turn. to page 8) who was born in 1958, has al- ways been normal and healthy. There had never been any health problems in my family - or my hushand’s. © “When: «lmost” despaired. At that time - the doctors did not know avhat i 3 told me there was only a slight chance that we would ‘have another baby with the same problems. They thought perhaps it would be good for my morale to have another baby. - . Mary came and we’ ~ thought she wouldn't- live- we born with Eflis-van Creveld and dwarfism, as well as dental “Kathleen, our third daugh- ter, was born January 22, 1963. She was like Mary. On April 1st of that year, Kathleen died of heart failure.” In 1965 the Bishops went to the March of Dimes ‘Birth De- told that Mary had the Ellis-van Creveld ‘syndrome. Once deoc- “tors -had ‘recognized the-eondi- tion, ‘they “were able to advise the young couple about their chances of having another with similar disorders. “The risk for -us was Very high, and we decided then not to have any mere: children,” Mrs. Bishop says. "Dr. Murray Feingold, direc- Diagnosed at March of Dimes Center Mrs. Elliott Bishop Jr. of Hanover, Mass., is certain that her daughter, Mary, is fects Center where they were | MARY BISHOP, 7; Hanover, Mass., opens wide for Dr. Murray Fein- gold, director of the March of Dimes-financed Birth Defects: Center. at Boston Floating ‘Hospital for infants and Children. ‘Mary was syndrome, which caused heart defects defects. usually one in four that an ofI- spring will inherit. character- istics * of the syndreme. This condition—is ‘particularly com- mon- among the-Amish; but, as in the Bishop family, it is not confined to that group. “When Mary was born, little was known about the syn- drome,” - says Mrs. Bishop. “I think there were only 32 re- ported cases in the country. ow; of course, more is known | and more caSes-are being re- —+ported. : © “The information came a lii- tle late to help us in planning «our family, but I hope ethers | will be able to get proper diag- nosis and genetic counseling so they can avoid the kind of tor -of the Birth Defects Cen- ter; points out that chanees are tragedy we. experienced.”
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