a I. | 1 | By R.A.R. A bit of news with a local flavor and especially inter- esting to the newspaper fra- ternity popped up a few days ago. ® © ® At Millersburg, Pa., a young man believed to be the youngest publisher in Pennsylvania of a newspaper of general circulation, has taken over ownership of the hometown weekly. “The Sen- tinel.” ® © ® He is Ben L. Kocher, who was a student teacher in the Donegal high school about three years ago while he was attending Elizabe'htown col- lege. At that time he was preparing to teach history. @® ® % Since that time he took an- other look at what he wants to do to make a living and has chosen journalism. He is about 25 years of age, schoolmen who remember his student teaching days with Donegal say. 5 ® © ® The Sentinel was founded in 1884 and from appearance of the two copies of the pa- per which came across the desk of the Bulletin editor, Ben is going to have some fun operating his business. ® © ® We were interested to hear Monday night at Borough council meeting that the borough has spent $2,900 on snow plowing thus far this winter. ® © $ That may be how much has been spent but it doesn’t begin to tell the cost to the town which the snow has caused. ® © o Street repairs, broken, twisted and missing street signs will run into many dol- lars. The wear and tear on mechanical equipment is an untold figure which is very high. ® 6 © We'd bet that doubling the $2900 would not tell the (Turn to page 2) VOL. 69. NO. 35 School Buses Scmetimes Late Pupils in the Donegal Dis- trict who ride school buses are being urged to remain at their bus stops for at least 30 minutes past the normal pickup time. Supervising Principal R.F. Hallgren has issued a state- ment concerning problems with operating bus schedules and he says that there are frequent occasions through- out the normal school year when buses may be behind schedule. Such things as breakdowns, accidents, weather, etc. may cause variations from daily routine. Students and parents have asked how long boys and girls should wait at the bus stop area when these delays occur. It is difficult, Hallgren said, to list a definite proce- dure to cover all individual cases, but he would strong- ly urge that students remain in their bus stop area for at least thirty minutes and then attempt to phone the school office and ask for further information. “We realize, he added, that this procedure is not al- ways possible for many reas- ons, such as severe weather conditions or lack of nearby telephone facilities. We would certainly appeal to all students and parents to make every effort to get to their school building and not run home following a 30-minute wait and expect to receive an excused absence for an entire day.” LEISURE CLUB The Mount Joy Leisure Club will hold its next reg- ular meeting at the Mt. Joy Sports Farm on Monday, Feb. 9. All members are being urged to attend for installa- tion of officers. ‘Of This and That’ It seems odd that Austra- lia and Mount Joy would have anything in common! The big country ‘down un- der” is just about as far from Pennsylvania as you can get, on this earth. But there IS a connection. Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Murphy and two small children of Vienna, Va., have returned in the past few weeks from a two-year stay in Australia. (Mrs. Murphy is the former Mary E.izabeth Gerberich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Gerberich, W. Main street.) This week a young schoo- teacher came into the Bul- letin to place an ad to sell her car and a color television set. The reason? She and a friend are leaving the last of February for a two to four- year stay in Australia! And a nice couple living near Mount Joy will be leav- ing soon for a three-and a half week's vacation trip to the country of the “Aussies”. Who says the world isn’t getting smaller, day by day? * W * One of the best recives we have heard of for “Chasing away the midwinter “dold- rums” is being worked out by some very nice people we know. They are. taking a small, by the editor's wife quaint farmhouse and ‘‘con- verting”’ it into a pretty lit- tle “summer house” which they hope to use before too long, While the snow has been piled around in six-foot drifts, they have been scrap- ing old plaster off of solid yellow brick walls in the living room, sanding paint from wide poplar floor boards and cleaning and pol- ishing an antique iron ‘‘hang- ing light” which is intact and may well serve as a foc- al point in the room. With outside, the old enjoyed as they When the wind howling they cleaned out fireplace and have many a cheery fire worked. the snow was too deep to reach the farmhouse, they have been poring lib- rary books on how to restore and furnish colonial rooms, and have had fun deciding whether to put down a big, oval braided rug on the floor or use old-fashioned rag carpet, which would ac- tually be closer to the spirit of the house. They are ready now to choose paint, pick up odds and ends of furnishings, pre- ferably from the family ‘“at- tie’, and be ready to enjoy their summer retreat when (Turn to page 7) Mount Joy's ONLY Newspaper — ‘requires Devoted to the Best Interest and Welfare of Mount Joy MOUNT JOY, PA.,, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1970 TEN CENTS Police Given Wage Boost Wages of Mount Joy's four police officers were boosted $1,900 per year Monday night, Feb. 2, as the Mount Joy Borough Council held its February meeting in the borough building. The increases, ranging from $700 to $300, were giv- en on the recommendation of Mayor Henry Zerphey. As granted, the raises are: Police Chief J. Bruce Kline, $700, making total salary of $7,200; Patrolman Fred Nestlerode, $500, to $5,900; Patrolman Mike Good, $400, to $6,000, and Patrolman William Booth, $300, to $5,700. Council also set the oflic- ers, normal work week at 44 hours but gave the Mayor the option of calling for 48 hours per man if and when the necessity arises. Officers are to be paid overtime wag- es at straight time rates, af- ter 48 hours per week. The raises are effective as of Feb. 1, 1970. Council also granted wage increases to part-time police officers and to crossing guards, upping the former from $2 per hour to $2.50 and the latter from $1.75 to $2.00. The mayor also was auth- orized to spend up to $100 for a finger printing outfit. A request for a riot gun, riot tear gas gun and a cam- era for the police department Pick Collector of New Tax Machinery for collecting Mount Joy’s new Occupation Privilege Tax was set in mo- tion Monday night, Feb. 2, as Borough Council held its February meeting in the bor- ough building. Robert Kline, borough treasurer, was named collec- tor of the tax and was auth- orized to begin setting up files and record systems and to organize a system which first payment in June of this year. The tax of $10 applies to Milk Producers Elect Directors Milk p roducers, if they are to improve their stand- ard of living, must increase their volume and their effi- ciency, members of the Mt. Joy Farmers Cooperative were told Thursday after- noon at their annual ban- quet, held at Hostetters. The speaker was Joe Tay- lor of Penn State, who said that the 30-cow herd will continue to make a few dol- Jars. But, an improved fin- ancial situation demands a bigger operation on an effic- ient basis. He was talking -on, “The Dairy Situation, As I see It.” He is dairy specialist at Penn State. Prices and production are good now but there are revo- lutionary changes going on, he said. ,For instance, in ’45 there were 60,000 dairymen in the state and milk was $3.54. Now, there are ap- proximately 20,000 and the price is $6. In another 10 vears, he predicted the num- ber of dairymen may drop to 10.000. “Dairying as a way of life, is losing favor in Pennsylvania,” he pointed out. One of the problems of the milk industry, he said, isthe decreasing per capita con- sumption. And, the house- wife, more and more, is buy- ing her milk at the markets rather than from a door-to- door deliveryman. Unless a farmer is willing to take a $3,000 to $4,000 in- come from a herd of 30-35 cows, he must borrow, and expand and ‘go into business’. If he borrows, he must have enough cows to use his facil- ities and thereby make the operation fully profitable. The Thursday noon ban- quet was in charge of Presi- (Turn to page 8; every person who works in the borough of Mount Joy. Employers are to collect the tax from their employees and pay it over to the bor- ough treasurer. Employers are to receive 2 percent of the tax they collect as payment for their bookkeeping and effort and the borough treasurer is to receive 2 percent of his col- lections as his wages. Sample forms have been examined from both Harris- urg and Elizabethtown. Council said Monday that the system, including forms, likely will follow very close- ly the system used in neigh- boring Elizabethtown. The borough has estimated that the new tax will total about $15,000. To Play College Stage Show Dawn Heisey, 213 West Main St., Mount Joy, has been selected to play in the Millersville State College spring production, of Rogers and Hammerstein's “South Pacific”. : Miss Heisey will sing so- prano in the production's chorus. Performances will be Mar. 4 5, 6, and 7 in MSC’s Lyte auditorium at 8:15 p.m. There will be an admis- sion charge to the public. Dawn is a 1969 graduate of Donegal high school, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin B. Heisey. ‘ were withdrawn when ques- tions concerning budget as- signment were raised. In other business, council authorized the moving of its radio and emergency com- munication system from the borough-owned trailer in Apple Alley to a residence property at 14 North Market street. Mr. and Mrs. Steve E. Leatherman, who have oper- ated the system, plan to buy the property on north Mar- ket and to move there short- ly. Under a new contract wiih them, they will no longer be employees of the borough but will buy the service at a cost of $115 per month. The borough is to pay - for the moving of its fire, police and ambulance radio equip- ment, at an estimated cost of $65. Council, by the new agree- ment, holds an option to buy the tract of land on which the trailer is situated and the house at 14 N. Market. Both the borough and the Leath- ermen have a 90-day term- ination clause for ending the agreement, which becomes effective June 29, 1970. Councilmen, in noting two utility rates increases, order- ed letters sent to the Colum- bia-United Telephone com- pany and PP&L noting that increases are poorly timed for the borough because bud- (Turn to page 8) To Play With District Band Gloria Longenecker will be Donegal high school's on ly representative in the Dis- trict Band festival, to be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Hempfield school. A flute player, Gloria will be one of 190 young music- ians participating from 33 schools in York, Lancaster and Adams counties. She also wiil play with 17 other Donegal musicians in the County Band Festival, on Feb. 28, at Elizabethtown high school. The District musicians wiil play Friday and Saturday concerts in the Hempfield District's Junior high school on Centerville road. Friday's performance will be at 8 p. m. and Saturday's at 7:45 p.m. First Service in The in the Trinity first service new sanctuary - of Lutheran church will be held this Sunday, Feb. 8. The congregation will as- semble for the last time in the sanctuary of the old church at 10:45 a. m. and, after a brief service there, form a procession to the new sanctuary where the service will be continued. Next Wednesday, and each Wednesday evening during Lent, evening services will be held in the new sanctuary at 7:30 p.m., with a theme, “Triumphs of the Cross.” The first Holy Communion in the new church will be celebrated on the first Sun- day in Lent, Feb. 15, at the hours of 10:45 am. 4 p.m. and 7 p. m. There will be New Sanctuary other Holy Communions on Holy Thursday, March 26th at 7:30 p.m. and on Easter Sunday, March 29th at 10:45 a.m. The first Confirmation in the new church will take place on Palm Sunday, Mar. 22. Wins Part With College Musical lane Elis, son of . Mr. and Mrs. Lee E. Ellis, has been selected to play lead guitar for the Kutztown State College production of “Sweet Charity’. Lane is a second semester freshman at Kutztown where he is studying Seconds ary Education, ~-
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