| | Nery NE En Soe BE re Playground Activiti Ccrivirties Mount Joy playground op- ened for another season and so far has an enrollment of 140 boys and girls. Activities this past week have includ- ed softball, hardball, bad- minton, deck tennis, horse- shoes, nok-hockey, ping-pong kickball and organized games. Special events were a treasure hunt with Andy Whitesel as the winner, a fishing trip to Safe Harbor, where Bill Hayman caught the largest fish—a 16-inch Catfish, and a Hat Show with the following winners. The smallets hat won a tie between Joi Shearer and John Thomas, the largest was worn by Donna Sump- ter, the most creative, by Jacquie Jo Zeller. Becky Ruhl won the prize for the prettiest, with Nicola Mark- ley second. Gary Graybill had the most orignal, Sherry Sumpter the sportiest, Lin- da Eberly the tallest, and Laura Markley the most realistic. Other than our regular ac- tivities, special events sched- uled for next week include an overnight hike for boys 9 years and older, a bingo game, a bubble gum blowing contest, a Hobby show and a Pet show. Points can be earned at the playground by participat- ing in activities and by daily attendance. Point leaders so far are: Beginner girls, Lin- da Eberly, Joi Shearer and Lee Ann Ober. Beginner boys: Jonathan Ruhl and Dean Zimmerman. Interme- diate boys: John Fellenbaum Keith Barninger and Bill Hayman. Intermediate girls: Carol Fackler, Rebecca Ruhi and Sherry Sumpter. Senior girls: Susan Godshall and Julie Thomas. Susan is also helping as a Junior Leader. The senior boys leading in points are Gary Graybili and John Thomas. An instructor in Arts and Crafts is at the Playground on Wednesday morning and Friday afternoon. Each Tues- day afternoon the children go to the Lion’s Club Pool for a free swim. Swimming lessons for Beginner swim- mers are now being offered. The playground is open on Monday through Friday, 9 10° 12, and from 1 to 3:30. * # * Maytown The Maytown playground opened July 1 with an en- rollment of about 100 to 125 the first week. We ended reg- istration with 163 children. The first week of activities included baseball, basketball shuffleboard, ping pong, and other assorted games. A girls’ softball team and boys’ basketball team were organized and have been practicing very hard. We plan to have games with the teams from the other play- grounds. Thursday the boys went on the fishing trip to Safe Harbor and Friday there was a scavenger hunt. Nok Hockey and checker tournaments were set up and started this week. This week the point lead- ers were Patty Houseal, a beginner, for the girls, and Greg Lindemuth and Jay Long, intermediates, for the (Turn to page 4) = BULLETIN x ER ny 2 " O Mount Joy's ONLY Newspaper — Devoted to the Best Interest and Welfare of Mount Joy ~ VOL. 69. NO. 7. DEANS LIST Three local students have been named to the Eliza- bethtown College Dean’s list for the spring semester of the 1968-69 term. A perfest average is 4.0. A minimum average of 3.5 is required for Dean’s List hon- ors. They are: Lois Ober, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Phares S. Ober, R.D. 2; John B: Toppin II, son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Toppin, 132 S. Market St., and Kathlene A. Zimmer- man, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Zimmerman, of 122 S. Barbara Street. Miss Ober and Toppin achieved a 4.0 for the semes- ter. BUYS HOME Gladys Swope of May- town has purchased the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jos- eph Shaeffer at 327 West Donegal street, and will be moving there in September. Mr. and Mrs. Shaeffer are building a new home on Park avenue and will be moving into it at the same time. FIVE DAY Weather Forecast From The Harrisburg Weather Bureau Thursday through Monday July 17 - 21 Temperatures for the 5- day period from Thursday through Monday are expec- ted to average above nor: mal. Daytime highs will be in the low 90's, night- time lows in the low 70's. It will be warm through- out the period. Precipitation may total 12” to 1” occurring as showers over the weekend. MOUNT JOY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1969 Council to Make Police Decision Two borough police offic- ers who have been working with the newly-enlarged Mt. Joy police department are to be considered for permanent employment at a special meeting of the Borough Council. The council, sitting at the new borough building on east Main street, beginning at 8 p.m. will consider their cases. The men are William Booth and Fred Nestleroth. Both joined the force as rookies and were by rules of their employment placed on a six-months probation. Leisure Club Holds Meeting The -Mount Joy Leisure Club held its regular meet- ing at the Mount Joy Sports Farm on July 14, with 56 members present, Columbia Senior Citizens club was their guests, with 34 members present. Lunch- eon was served, after which the business meeting was held, with two members be- ing admitted. A lovely program was pre- sented. The next monthly mgeting will be held at the Cove, Aug. 11. A box lunch will be served at 12 o'clock sharp. Among the many things that men have forgotten, the most surprising is that they have forgotten that they are living on a tiny hunk of rock floating thru immense space — from an unknown into an unknown. Eye on Junior Olympics Marty Heisey, wearing a pair of imported track shoes and propelled by boundless energy, will enter one of the big schoolboy track and field events of the summer on Sat- urday, July 19. The 15-year-old Donegal high school sophomore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Hei- sey, 213 West Main, St. will take part in the AAU-spon- sored Eastern Regional cham- pionships, aiming for a spot in the Junior Olympics in California next month. And — with a little luck, he might just get an all-ex- pense trip by plane to the big event. His chances? The Junior Olympic record in the divis- ion in which he will be com- peting is 6 ft. 3 inches. Mar- ty has done better than six feet or better three times— 6-0; 6-3, and 6-1. But, what will it take Music In The Park Saturday One of Mount Joy’s favorite “Music in the Park™ programs will return for a Saturday night engagement on July 19th when The Couriers come to town. The program, sponsored by the Mount Joy Community council with Charles E. Ashenfelter Sr. as chairman, will be staged in Memorial Park, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The Couriers sing America’s favorite hymns and gospel songs and are nationally known on radio and television. In the past, their perform- ances in Mount Joy have attracted record crowds. Those who attend are reminded to take their own chairs. There will be no charge for the pro- gram but there will be a free will offering. .: © to place either first, second or third this Saturday and thereby give him a shot at the Olympics? That is a good question. But, he will need to do very well, for the Saturday competition at Col- lege Park, Md., near - Wash- ington, D. C., is tough, in- cluding the entire Eastern seaboard. Marty, assisted by his Don- egal high school coach, Paul Portner — is working daily, running and jumping and do- ing concentrated work on his takeoff. While he may not do strenuous jumping each day, he does run con- stantly and jumps competi- tively against himself at least every second day keep- ing in mind that he wants to g0 6 - 4 by this fall. Marty, a 5 - 11 youngster who practically stumbled in- to high jumping only because Coach Portser invited him to try, uses the western roll style of jump, which he says feels most comfortable to him. He has a foam rubber landing pad, standards and cross bar set up in the back yard of his home and there does his training. One night this week he had an interes- ted Franklin & Marshall ath- letic coach on hand giving him some pointers. But, about the track shoes. Footing and takeoff are two very important parts of high (Turn to page 8) THIS ISSUE -- Two Sections 20 PAGES "Team Parents TEN CEN Ld Disturbance at Swim Pool Splash parties at the Mt. Joy swimming pool have been discontinued tempor- arily discontinued, it has been temporarily discontin- ued,, it has been announced following an unpleasant epi- sode Wednesday night, July 9th. Charles Ricedorf, chair- man of the Lions Club swim- ming pool, said that the situation is being reviewed and studied. The temporary discontin- uance of the weekly parties was requested by Mayor Frank Walter and by Police Chief J. Bruce Kline, Rice- dorf said. He added that a plan may Pool Team Win Swim Title Parents and fans of the Mount Joy Swim Team en- joyed an exciting evening as the team scored a victory over Willow Street on Tues- day, July 8; clinching the Division II YMCA champion- ship. Coaches Willie Heisey and Carol Lynes received a tra- ditional dunking in the pool (courtesy of the team) when the winning score of 187-178 was announced. Fhe Mount Joy Swim Club will sponsor a Pep Rally on Mon- day, July 21 to cheer and to encourage the team in its final meet with Xo-ka-le-co on July 22. The meet on July 22 will be held at the Mount Joy Pool, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free and the public is invted to attend and root for Mt. Joy's unde- feated team. Greiner to Enter Air-Force OTS Gray W. Greiner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Greiner, 251 Park avenue, has been notified that he was accepted for Officers Training School at Lackland Military Train- ing Center, San Antonio, Texas. He will report for duty late in October and he ex- pects that eventually he will be assigned as a pilot. A June graduate of Vir- ginia Polytechnical Institute at Blacksburg, Va., he was active in the student train- ing program and served as a cadet officer in the train- ing corps. He is a '65 graduate of Donegal high school. be devised to eliminate “outsiders” from the splash festivities. The parties have been held on a regular basis for sev- eral years. Decision to discontinue the pool parties came after a disturbance about 10:30 pm. near the end of the dancing session, Mount Joy police respond- ed to a call and arrested two young men — one from Co- lumbia and the other from Mount Joy — and charged them with disturbing the peace. Both were taken to Justice of the Peace James Hockenberry, where they posted bail and were re- leased pending a hearing this week. Officers placed the two under arrest inside the pool enclosure, where there had been some alleged fighting. No one was hurt except for a “puffy face”, police said. There were approximately 800 at the dance and there was considerable milling a- bout during the disturbance officers reported. Part of the crowd followed police - and the two who were taken into custody to the J. P.’s office and contin- ued to circulate and congre- gate. But, there were no un- toward incidents. Two Guns Stolen At Sports Farm Two M-1 rifles which be- long to the U. S. government were stolen sometime late Wednesday night, July 9, or early the next day, from the Mount Joy Sportsmen club- house, north of the borough. In addition, a few packag- es of cigarettes, a relatively small amount of cash and a- bout 100 rounds of ammuni- ton for the guns were taken. Elwood Martin, for many years president of the club, discovered the breakin early Thursday. Although there was no evidence of forceiul entry into the building, an inside door leading from the meeting room into the office had been forced and dainag- ed. : Pennsylvania State. Police and the FBI were notified. MOVED TO CALIFORNIA Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Wolge- muth, who have been living at 44 West Main, moved last week to California, where he was transferred. An em- ployee of AMP, he will be officer manager of the Palo Alto office. They will live in the near-by suburbs of Cup- ertino, Calif., at 22460 Wali- nut Circle North. AN EDITORIAL Tell the Children These days we live in are historic! Most of us realize it and appreciate it deeply, but it needs to be said in black and white—today, NOW" What is happening in space today is part of a dream which mankind has had throughout all ages What is happening few men even hoped to live to see. What is happening may well be one of the most im- portant accomplishments of man, even surpassing his historic achievement of the invention of the wheel. Right now — today — this week is an appalling event which defies the word of man to describe in its magnitude. (Turn to page 2) - a [\Y) wn 3 T ao HH
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