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Currently, the proposal of government most charged with emotion is. the one to lower the voting age from 21 to 18. ® © o Although a vote in Harris burg last week was over- whelmingly in favor of the proposal, the final enactment is a long way in the future. ® ©& o The next General Assemb- ly must vote favorably be- fore the matter goes to the people. ® © °° Long. before that time, some of the emotionalism now surrounding the propos- al may have subsided: The charged-up approach to the sub’ect, which is about the only argument used by those favoring the lower age limit, is bound up in the statement, “If a boy is old enough to fight and to die in Vietnam, he is old enough to vote.” © oo o Those same people should ask themselves, “If a boy is old enough to fight and die in Vietnam, is he old enough to walk into any bar and buy a drink?” ® © ® A look at the 1968 finan- cial report of the Mount Joy Borough shows that ex- penses for streets is the big- gest single item the borough has on its list. ® © © Second largest is ‘“protec- tion of persons and proper- ty’’; third is garbage dispos- al; fourth is administration, and fifth is street lighting. ® oO o Amounts spent in 1968 on the above items are: Streets $47,281 24 Protection $25,072.09 Garbage $18,359.10 Administ’'tion $15,934.00 Street Lights $13,077.59 ® © o A full account of borough money is found elsewhere in this issue of the Bulletin, If is interesting reading, if you are a taxpayer and if you care about local government. VOL. 68. NO. 42. Rotary Elects Robert E. Kline New President Robert E. Kline, 567 North Angle street, has been elect- ed president of the Mount Jeoy Rotary club for the year 1969-70. He was named Tuesday noon at a meeting of the board of directors. He wili succeed Dr, Robert F. Esh- leman-: Kline has been serving the club as vice-president for the past year and also as program chairman. Other officers elected for the coming year include Charles O. Groff, first vice- president; Ragnar Hallgren, second vice-president, and Joe Shaeffer, treasurer. A new secretary is to be nam- ed later. The new officers will as- sume their new duties July 1, 1969. Gettysburg Band To Play Concert Here Friday On Friday, March 28 the Gettsyburg College Concert Band will present a concert in the Donegal high school auditorium, beginning at 8 p.m. Robert Zellner is the con- ductor of the Gettysburg College Band. Donegal is the only stop the band has in Lancaster county on its spring concert tour. The 75 - 80 musicians rep- resent all departments of the college. Tickets will be available at the door. The cost for ad- ults is $1 and students 50c. THIS ISSUE -- Two Sections 24 PAGES ‘Of This and That’ Sundy’s balmy weather and sunshine triggered sum- mer-like activity in Lancast- er County! And this, in spite of the fact that it was really only March 23! On a drive Sunday after- noon we saw thousands do- ing just what we were doing — riding around through the countryside, soaking up sun- shine. At Cool Creek course, golfers were out in numbers. As we drove through Sam Lewis State Park, we saw a score of kites flying high in FIVE DAY Weather Forecast From The Harrisburg Weather Bureau Thursday through Monday March 27 - April 1 Temperatures for the S5- day period from Thursday through Monday are expec- ted to average below nor- mal Daytime highs will be in the high 40's, nighttime lows in the low 30’s- Sea- onable temperatures atthe beginning of the period, colder thereafter. Precipi- tation may total ¥% inch or less, falling as snow flur- ries in the interior Thurs- day and Friday: by the editor's wife the air. It seemed to be a contest of some kind, with parents joining in the fun. Boys and girls without wraps of any kind were romping on the hillside. ~~ We met convertibles with their tops down; we saw children on roller skates, others riding bicycles, or playing baseball There were couples out walking, arm in arm. House- holders were raking and dig- ging in their yards. Fisher- men were carrying poles to the creek. Cars were being washed, horses were being ridden! It was a happy time, and gave us all a taste of what it should be like, on a more permanent basis, just a month from now! - * * Artificial flowers are get- ting more lifelike and more beautiful all the time. We saw some forsythia, over the week end, which we had to touch before we could believe that it wasn't real. At a local flower shop, we saw Easter ‘lilies, hycinths and daffodils that were aw- fully pretty. We moved clos- er to them, and discovered that they, too, were artificial. Yes, they LOOK like ‘‘the real thing” until you get (Turn to page 3) MOUNT JOY, PENNA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1969 = BULLETIN Mount Joy's ONLY Newspaper — Devoted to the Best Interest and Welfare of Mount Joy = 2 = 3 ct c Cd Oo << T, “a H » 2 GC zon lus Nn 4+ SEVEN CENTS Sharing Easter Happiness With Others Mrs. Richard Boyland, 568 Front street, Marietta, distri- butes “Sunshine” as her bit in spreading Easter Cheer. Midway through March the furniture in the living room of her home is set up for the purpose of assembling the goodwill “nests.” Pink paper containers are placed in symmetrical order in preparation of her yearly project of filling Easter Nests for 28 Nursing and Convalescent homes through- out Lancaster county. One Orphanage also shares in the distribution. Each institution is contact- ed by telephone by Mrs Boyland, in order to learn the correct number of gifts for the guests. Recipients may be shut-ins, aged, or orphans. There are two types of bas- kets — regular and diabetic. Every nest includes the ex- act number of pieces down to birdie eggs. However, the latter nests also have fruit & hard boiled eggs. All nests will have the Easter Story tucked within. Candy must not be cocoanut or nut vari- ety and may not be wrapped in foil, any of these are haz- ardous to the beneficiaries SD. Mrs. Boyland initiated the ‘Male Animal’ Opens “The Male Animal,” three-act comedy about how a young man goes aboul proving “the redness of his blood”, is being presented by the Mount Joy Lions this week at the W. I. Beahm Junior high school. The show opened Wednes- day night and will continue each evening through Satur- day. The product of James Thurber and Elliott Nugent, Street Sweeping Project Begins Sweeping of streets in Mt. Joy to remove the , accumu- lation of winter debris is scheduled for this week. The sweeper and its oper- ator, from near Pottstown, was scheduled to come to town early this week and to work at the job as the wea- ther permits until streets with curbs are finished. Street Committee Chair- man Simeon Horton said this week that a number of peo- ple in the community have been sweeping the gutters in front of their properties particularly on Saturday, when the weather was favor- able for doing outside work. Horton thanked the people of the community who have been working at the cleanup program and have helped give the town a better ap- pearance even prior to the time the mechanical sweeper could be brought in by the borough. a the play takes as its era the days and ways which sur- round the infamous Sacco and Vanzetti slaying. While the case itself has nothing to do with the play, the attempt of one of the principals to inject associat- ed material changes a world of educated placidity to one of struggle to retain a mate. Director is Miss Dorothy Schock and the cast includes: Betty Klinedinst, H. Morrell Shields, Sylvia S. Hostetter, LaVon Harnish, Geo. Fitzkee, Charles Ashenfelter, Sr. Jere Duke, Mary Jane Hof- fer, Samuel Harnish, Evelyn Sweigart, Charles Ashenfelt- er, Jr, John Presto, Lloyd Derr and Clayton “Jake” Au- ment. Tickets are available from any club member or at the door each night. Curtain time is 3 p.m. Banking Class Two Mount Joy banking trust officers attended ses- signs Thursday and Friday, March 20 and 21, of the Pennsylvania Bankers Asso- ciation’s 1969 Trust Confer- ence, held at the Holiday Inn Town, Harrisburg. They were: Lois G. Miller of south Delta street( of the Lancaster County Farmers National bank, and Lester G. Hostetter, north Barbara St., of the Union National Mount Joy bank: Some 4060 bankers from across the Commonwealth at- tended. project when her mother was a patient in a convalescent home and she toted some- something for her mother’s friends. The custom grew and has now reached throughout the entire county. Although the program is the effort. of many, the major expense and the chore falls on the donor, Assistance from rel- atives, neighbors, childrens groups and acquaintances en- courages the benefactor, who sometimes uses her baby sit- ting wages for the project. This is her way of spread- ing a little sunshine into the lives of many at Eastertime. Special Services Beginning on Palm Sun- day and continuing through Holy Week, there will be special services in St. Luke's Episcopal Church. On Palm Sunday at 8 a, m. there will be the Bless- ing of the Palin Branches and Holy Communion. At. 16:30 a.m. there will be a Choral Eucharist and Ser- mon. Palm branches will be distributed at both services on that day. The Church School will meet at 10:30 a. m. On Wednesday, during Holy Week, there will be a service of Holy Communion at 7 p.m: Maundy Thursday, the day on which the Last Supper was 1ustituted, there ". will be two celebrations of the Holy Communion. The first will be a plain celebration at 7 am. At 7 p.m. there wiil be a Choral Eucharist with hymns. At the close of the service there will be a cere- monial stripping of the altar in preparation for Good Fri- day. On Good Friday from 1 to 2 pm. will be a service of litany, penitential office and meditation, This will be con- ducted by Father ~ Donald Whitesel. An invitation is extended to the peopie of the area to worship in St. Luke’s at any service. IN THE HOSPITAL Irvin “Spook” Kaylor was returned to the St. Joseph's hospital: on Sunday in the Friendship Fire company ambulance. He, again, is in Room 241. Jaycees and Joycee-ettes Induct Officers Officers for the 1969 - '70 vear were inducted and awards were presented Sat- urday night, March 22, at the annual joint installation banquet of the Mount Joy Jaycees and Joycee-ettes. The affair, always a gala event, was held at the Mount Joy American Legion. Inducted into office as lea- ders of the two organizations were: James Gingrich, Jay- cees, and .Shirley Yingst, Joycee-ettes. The following awards were presented: Joycee-ette ‘awards: Out- standing Joycee-ette, Mrs. , Shirley Yingst; Outstanding board member, Mrs. Betty Bitzer; Outstanding chair- man, Mrs. Bunny McCiellan: Outstanding service, Mrs. Lorraine Lutz; -Certificates of Merit were presented to Mrs. Nancy Reymer, mem- bership chairman; Mrs. Julie (Turn to page 4) NEW OFFICERS were inducted Saturday night, Mar. 22, as Jaycees and Joycee-ettes held annual installa- tions Saturday night at a banquet held at the Mount Joy American Legion. Shown above accepting the ga- vil for their organizations are: James Gingrich (lefi) president of the Jaycees and Shirley Yingst, president of the Joycee-eties. TEX - -
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