PAGE FOUR
THE BULLETIN, MOUNT JOY, PA.
Aspects Of A Community Study
In a previous article in the
Mount Joy Bulletin, the ques-
tion of “Why Does A Commu-
...nity Need To Plan?” was dis-
cussed.
Having recognized the need
to plan, a process has been de-
veloped in order to insure a
valid complete effort at pro-
,ducing a Comprehensive Plan.
. The first step of this process
is a community analysis. The
following list indicates those
aspects of the community to
be studied and an indication
of why they are studied. Fu-
ture articles will explain the
remaining steps of the plan-
ning process in order to keep
the public better informed
and more closely related {1o
governmental activities un-
dertaken by the community.
1. History — The history of
the community is studied in
order to gain an understand-
ing of the character of the
‘ommunity and its people an’
the reasons for its growth or
decline over the vears.
2. Physical Features — The
geology, elevation, slope,
drainage and soil characteris-
tics are studied to determine
the limitations for future de-
velopment within the commu-
nity.
3. Existing Land Use—The
relationship between existing
commercial, industrial, resi-
dential, agricultural and oth-
er land uses are studied in or-
der to establish existing land
use patterns which could be
Change Mail Dispatches
The last departure of out-
going mail from the Mt. Joy
Post Office has been changed.
Mail that formerly depart-
ed at 6 p.m. now departs at
5:30 p. m. effective at once.
The incoming mail, which ar-
rived at 4 p.m. has been
changed to arrive at 4:45 p.m.
Collection service from the
street boxes. on Main street
has been changed from 5 p.m.
to 4:45 p.m.
Since one half haus has been
taken from the casing time of
the mail, Joseph Shaeffer, as-
sistant postmaster, is urging
business and industry to take
their out going mail to the
post office earlier, especially
the parcel post. Shaeffer
states that if the mail is re-
ceived in the post office earl-
ier, the possibility of delays
or last minute rush can be eli-
minated.
SICO Employes Feted
Employees of the SICO Co.
were entertained at their 23rd
annual banquet on Friday
evening, May 1, at Dutch
Town and Country Inn.
Robert P. McGinley, com-
pany president, made the op-
ening remarks and introduced
as speaker, Dr. William Nit-
raver, vice president of the
SICO Foundation.
Special entertainment was
provided by Cooke & Rose
Theatrical agents.
Marie Wolgemuth and Wil-
liam Sanders were given Ha-
milton watches in recognition
of 25 years with the company
Retiring employees, Clar-
ence, Harold Trout and Wal-
ter Keebler each were given
a television set.
Service awards were given
to the following people for 10
years of service: Edwin E.
Goodhart, J. Walter Ketter-
ing, Janet M. Leaman, Mar
garet E. Mackinson, Ethel
G. Metzler, Victor Mishler,
Charles W. Ricedorf, Rich-
ard S. Rohrer, Martin F. Rup-
pert, Richard H. Weaver, and
John W. Weir.
15 years of service: Paul E.
Diffenderfer, Maria A. Forry,
Isaac H. Fox, Roy G. Frey,
Samuel J. Frey, Paul R. Gin-
grich, Peter H. Newswanger,
Daniel Pietrantonio, and Paul
N. Schaeffer.
20 years of service: Edward
K. Brown, R. Scott Flowers,
Henry K. Hess, Charles H.
Paules & Raymond R. Sump-
man.
25 years of service: William
N. Sanders and Marie P. Wel-
gemuth.
30 years of service: Lloyd
B. Steele & Edgar S. Stokes.
35 years of service: John H.
Harris, James J. Kilcoyne &
Harold B. Trout.
40 years of service: Eunice
L. Sober.
School Plans
The Annual Spring Open
House at Grandview Elemen-
tary School will be held Tues-
day, May 12 at 7 p.m.
Featured on the program
will be a band concert in the
courtyard from 7 to 7:30, di-
rected by Morrell Shields; a
vocal program by the elemen-
tary grades in the all-purpose
room, starting at 7:30 under
the direction of Mrs. Ethel
Broske, and an Art Exhibit of
works by pupils in Grades 1-
6 under the supervision cof
Mrs. Beryl Hahn.
Openhouse’
The vocal program consists
of animal songs by the first
graders, taught by Mrs. An-
ne Hollinger and Mrs. Mary
Kauffman; American folk
tunes by the second grgles
taught by Mrs. Rhoda K\j!lor
and Mrs. Esther Weaver and
Folk Songs from other coun-
tries by the third grades
taught by Mrs. Crystal Fack-
ler and Mrs. Dora Wittle. In-
cluded on this program is the
third grade Flutophone Class-
es of Mr. Shields.
The public is invited.
Entered In Science Fair
Accompanied by her moth-
er, Mrs. Vaughn Baker, 129 S.
Market street, 16-year-old
Regina Baker, will participate
next week in the 1970 Inter-
national Science Fair, to be
held in Baltimore.
They will join others from
this area and go to the big
event on Monday, May 11, for
a week’s stay.
4+Regina, a Donegal high
sehool student, won the trip
to the International with a re-
serve championship in the '70
Lancaster County Fair, held
early in April.
She did her scientific ex-
periment on the intriguing
subject,” Which Freezes Fast;
est=Hot or Cold Water?”
Strange to the layman's
general idea, she found that
hot water freezes the fastest.
The International, to be
held in the new Civic Center
in downtown Baltimore, will
bring together young scien-
tists who have participated in
local fairs all across the coun-
try and some from outside
the U. S.
They wiill be entertiained
royally, including tours of
the historic area, and will par-
ticipate in a number of in-
teresting afftairs. During part
of the fair they will be oblig-
ed to remain with their exhib-
it to present it and to answer
questions and to explain.
On Dean's List
Lois Mary Shenk, 2 West
High street, Maytown, has
been named to the Dean List
for excellance in scholarship
during the winter term of '70
at Penn State university. -
She is enrolled in the Col-
lege of Liberal Arts.
either encouraged or discour-
aged in the future land use
plan.
4. Population growth trends
from previous years and char-
acteristics of the population
are studied in order to better
understand the character of
the community. A population
projection is made to predict
future growth within approxi-
mately 20 years.
5. Housing—A general sur-
vey of housing characteristics
including age, condition, val-
ue and type is used to deter-
mine the general housing sit-
uation, and how it might be
improved. A housing projec-
tion is also used to predict the
housing needs for approximat-
ely 20 years.
6. Economy—The regional ec-
onomy, as well as local sour-
ces of employment and in-
come levels are studied in or-
der to understand the econ-
omic advantages and disad-
vantages of living and work-
ing in the general area and
how the economy has affected
the growth of the community.
7. Existing Cihculation Net-
work—Existing streets, roads
and highways as well as air,
rail, and public transporta-
tion are studied to determine
transportation hazards and fu-
ture needs or efficient econo-
mical transpértation net-
ks.
bir Community Facilities &
Public Utilities — Recreation
areas, schools, churches, fire
and police servants, trash dis-
posal, water and sewer sys-
tems and gas and electric
lines are studied to determine
where improvements can be
made on existing facilities &
which facilities must be con-
sidered for expansion in the
future. ;
9. Government and Fiscal—
Governmental organization,
municipal ordinances and mu-
nicipal fiscal policy are stud-
ied to determine the progres-
siveness of municipal govern-
ment in the community. An
examination of the financial
statements of the community
is made to determine the
source of and destination of
municipal revenues and whe-
ther the taxpayer’s money is
being put to best use.
- SCHOOL NOTES -
The 7-G English class at
W. 1..Beahm Junior H. S.
demonstrated in the April 29
assembly the theraputic val-
ues of grammer when dealing
with the communication ills
that afflict our society.
Six groups of students de-
veloped themes that made the
eight parts of speech an integ-
ral and entertaining part of
modern life.
The concept of the “King
and His Court” depicted the
crowning importance of the
verb in every sentence. The
royalty consisted of Marcia
Aungst, Wendy Beamender-
fer, Connie Zinn, Betty God-
shall and Odessa Mull.
The mysteries of the noun
were unveiled by horror crea-
ture like Victor Vampire, the
Hunchback of Notre Noun,
the Mummy's Mummy, and
Harvey the Cyclops. These
roles were played by William
Landis, Dave Schlosser, Gary
Schatz, Wayne Rice, Mark
Presnell and John Thomas.
The pronoun cast took the
audience to room 203 of the
hospital where a team of doc-
tors treated Bill Godshall for
severe pronoun headaches.
The medical staff consisted of
Dean Buchenauer, Don Wit-
man, Brian Lesher, Jim Elvin
and Raymond Husband.
A seance brought back the
spirits of the adjective in a
frightful manner. The inhabi-
tants of the castle were Leann
Ellis, Sharon Grissinger, San-
dy Johns, Rose Sivelsberger,
Andrea McCue and Debbie
Werner.
Washington D. C. became
the scene of an adverb sit-in.
The hippies were protesting
the apathy displayed by many
Americans when using the ad-
verb. The demonstrators in-
cluded Richard Yunginger,
Jeff Sheetz, Robert Shank and
Phil Houseal. Joseph Snyder
was the TV newsman who
conducted an interview
The CPI Detective Agency
investigated the complaint
that a villian was robbing
many sentences of their con-
junctions, prepositions and
interjections This resulted in
anemic, powerless sentences.
The culprit was Selisa Stauf-
fer, and the secret agents
were Pam Drace, Jody Ney,
Ramona Sell and Cindy Floyd
The program was organized
by William Earhart.
Miss Thome’s class did a
play about the “Sneetches”
and some songs from the “Cat
in the Hat Song Book.”
“The Sneetches” was a
story acted out by the class
and the story was read by
Debbie Sarbaugh. For cos-
tumes they wore orange
beaks, whitetail feathers and
white crests. A committee
made a star-on and star-off
machine.
In between “The Sneetch-
es” and some songs from the
“Cat in the Hat Song Book,”
Kenny Earhart sang “In My
Bureau Drawer.”
' « . Vises
The second program had a
lot of fun & nonsense. James
Johnson sang “Cry a Pint”;
Bonnie Bates sang ‘‘Somebody
Stole My Hoo-to-boo-tofoo-to
bak;” Eric Wolgemuth sang
“A-a-a-a-a-ah” and Kim Wilk-
enson sang “My Uncle Ter-
willingger Waltzes with
Bears” Nancy Buffenmyer
was a person who was scared
and she was walking real
slow. Then Neal Martin (he
was a thief) went across stage
and pulled Nancy’s sock off.
Then the whole class sang
“Party Parting.”
Charged With
Theft of Drugs
Michael John Young, 22, of
604 W. Main St., Mount Joy,
has been charged with burg-
lary and larceny for stealing
narcotic drugs from two Mt.
Joy doctors.
Young was apprehended on
Wednesday, April 27, at his
home by the Mount Joy Po-
lice and arraigned before Jus-
tice of the Peace Raymond
P. Knorr. He was committed
to the Lancaster County jail
in default of $5000 bail.
Police charged that Young
entered the offices of Dr.
Thomas O’Connor, 4 E. Main
St., and Dr. David Schlosser,
304 East Main St., and took
an undertermined amount of
narcotic drugs.
® Design Drawn
(From page 1)
fill will be used on each end
of the bridge to level out the
approaches and at the same
time keep the height of the
bridge sufficient to provide
water clearance for floods.
Design shows a bridge a
little wider than 40 feet, al-
lowing ample room for two
wide traffic lanes and for pe-
destrian walkways.
One of the features of the
engineers design is a widened
and improved approach to
the bridge area of Mt. Joy's
north Barbara street. .
One of the design problems
was to take care of surface
water and to include under-
ground lines for handling the
flow from a small spring lo-
cated just west of the area in
the neighborhood of the old
stone quarry.
OVERWEIGHT IS TOP
HEALTH PROBLEM
No age is spared the prob-
lem of overweight, says Mrs.
Ruth J. Buck, extension foods
and nutrition specialist at
Penn - State university. At
each stage of the life cycle,
everyone needs to learn to
practice a way of life that
will keep him within his
ideal weight range.
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It
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1970
Over
The
Back
Fence
By Max Smith
LOCAL FRUIT and
vege.
table growers are reminded
that some plans might be
made to protect part of their
crop from killing spring frosts
Such frosts often occur during
the bloom and fruiting period
Strawberry growers might
use a sprinkler irrigation sys-
tem to protect their plants.
Home gardeners can use lawn
sprinklers to protect small
areas of garden or strawber-
ries. With the sprinkler meth-
od of frost protection, water
is applied continuously by
means of rotating sprinklers.
As the air temperature drops
below freezing, the water
freezes into ice on the plant,
giving off latent heat, which
protects the plant blossoms
from freeze injury. The am-
ount of water needed depends
somewhat on the air tempera-
ture; as the temperature drops
more water is needed. Water
must be applied until air tem-
perature rises above the 32
degree F. and until all the ice
is melted from the plant.
THE PRESENCE of the East-
ern Tent Caterpillar is alrea-
dy observed and more will
be coming. These are usually
recognized by their conspicu-
ons tents or webs on all types
of trees or shrubs. The silky
tents spun by the caterpillars
make lawn and shade trees
unsightly; these worms feed
from the foliage of the tree
and shrub and should be des-
troyed. These caterpillars are
more easily controlled when
young and the trees can be
sprayed with either Sevin,
Methoxchlor, or Malathion.
Only the part of the tree con-
taining the tent or web needs
to be sprayed.
CORN PLANTING time is at
hand and many acres of this
major crop will ge into the
ground in the next few
weeks. Weather conditions
have not favored much field
work to prepare for this job
but with modern machinery
and with the trend toward
minimum or no tillage for
corn, the crop will no doubt
be planted on schedule. Early
May for southeastern Penn-
sylvania continues to be a
favorable time for planting
corn. Growers are urged to
plan each step of this job
carefully in order to get what
they want. The proper stand
of plants per acre is impor-
tant so the planter needs to be
checked and the speed of the
planting operation needs to
be slow enough to get accur-
ate planting. Most of the fer-
tilizer for corn should be
down near or below the root
zone; insects and weeds need
to be controled for maximum
yields. Cover crops for corn
or tobacco should be plowed
down or killed soon in order
to prevent excess top growth.
The value of the corn crop 1s
very important on most farms
and deserves careful planning
and attention throughout the
growing season.
ALFALFA weevil is not ex-
pected to be a heavy infesta-
tion this year in this part of
the state; however, all grow-
ers are urged to make fre-
quent inspections at this time
of the year to be alert for
this insect. It is hoped that
many growers will be able to
harvest the first cutting with-
out any spray. If 75 percent
of the plants are being eaten
by the weevil. then the crop
should either be cut or spray-
ed, depending upon the stage
of maturity. If weevil are
present at the time of the
first cutting, the stubble
should be sprayed to protect
the second growth.
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