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By R.A.R.
VOL. 70. NO. 2
Apathy, changing times or
what?
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For whatever the reason, it
should be noted somewhere
this week that at least two of
the events planned for the
Memorial Day weekend were
very very poorly attended.
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Friday night's band con-
‘cert—the “Music in the Park”
program—was bucking an ap-
pealing out-of-town attraction
which may have drained off
part of the crowd (county
baseball championship).
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Maybe it was because it
was a bit cold. Maybe it was
because it was Friday night.
At any rate, there were only
a few more than 60 people at
the park to hear one of the
best bands in this entire area.
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The next morning, at the
same park, although it is
hardly possible to think of a
more appropriate spot to hold
a Memorial Service, there
were hardly more than 100
people, in addition to those
directly involved.
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The park was beautiful, the
roses were blooming and the
weather was perfect.
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It would have seemed that
in 1970—of all times—there
would have been a big crowd.
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Times do change but one
wonders and wonders as he
sits in the warm sunshine
contemplates.
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The three-volley salute to
| aeeeethe. dead drifted . across..the.throughout. the county.
community on the warm
spring air. Was it a warm
spring day May 30 in Viet-
nam?—where other rifles and
other weapons blazed for an-
other reason—in another war?
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The Don Juan roses in the
park were brilliant red under
the spurt of smoke from rifles
of other wars. Red—*for val-
or, for courage and for hon-
or” it is written on the near-
by plaque.
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Red, too, the blood of yet
another war.
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Red, also, the faces of a
community which did not
muster enough people to form
a first class search and des-
troy outfit.
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How many boys did die on
the other side of the world
on Memorial Day 1970? Was
it warm and pleasant in the
rice field, or in some strange
hostile foreign jungle?
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The poppies blow in Flan-
ders, we know. The roses
bloom red in Memorial Ser-
Services. What red flower
stands for life and death half
way around the world?
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But, have heart, the three
sky divers who “dropped in”
on Mount Joy about 1:30 p.m.
Saturday were right on tar-
get.
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When they dropped from
their plane, they hoped to
land in the Borough Park —
on the ball field — on second
base.
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And, that's just what they
did — second base.
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Well — almost. One did!
And—he. was a she!
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Among the many commu-
nity projects which made the
Memorial Day deadline was
the repainting of the Cham-
ber of Commerce ‘welcome’
sign at the east edge of town
along Route 230.
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The sign, you'll recall, was
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It wasn’t easy — but Done-
gal won the 1970 Lancaster
champion-
County Baseball
ship Friday evening, May 29!
It took two extra innings
for the Indians to wipe out a
stubborn Garden Spot outfit
which had battled its way
through a tough season and
a tough playoff. But, when
dust had cleared away, the
Donegal lads held a 2-1 vic-
tory and reached the pinnacle
of local baseball achievement.
Name New Field
For Bob Kunkle
Beginning Saturday, May
30, the new baseball layout
in Mount Joy Borough Park
is to be known at “Kunkle
Field.”!
The new diamond is named
for Robert Kunkle, who for
many years has promoted,
managed, underwritten and
masterminded the junior base-
ball program in this commun-
nity.
At times almost singlehand-
ed, he has been the mainstay
of baseball for the kids of the
community. From his work
with the youngsters come
some of the grass roots inter-
est which has made school by
baseball in this community a
factor to be reckoned with
It was altogether fitting and
proper that the dedication
should come on Saturday, less
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Hold Memorial
Service at Park
Under blue skies and a gen-
tly fluttering flag at half staff,
Mount Joy paid tribute to its
fallen war heroes!
In beautiful Memorial park
Saturday morning, May 30,
solemn and reverant services
were conducted by Members
of the American Legion, the
Veterans of Foreign Wars and
the Boy Scouts.
The three-volley official sa-
lute by the firing squad was a
tribute to the servicemen of
all wars.
Rev. Donald Whitesell, pas-
tor of the St. Luke’s Episco-
pal church, was the principal
speaker, pointing out a few
ways to develop patriotism:
grow in our appreciation of
our heritage, work to build a
strong America, achieve a
proper balance between na-
tionalism and international-
ism and live and teach aH-
around good citizenship.
“Patriotism,” he said, seems
to have a bad reputation, is
out of date, corny and at best
played down. What we need
is a renascene of the Ameri-
can dream.”
He closed with Sir Walter
Scott’s “Breathes there the
man with soul so dead, who
never, to himself has said,
This is my own, my native
land.”
Music was provided by the
Young Americans, including
Sandy Heisey, Pam Kraus,
Robert Brinser, Blair Smith,
Casey Kraus, Steve Irwin and
Eileen Buchanan.
vandalized several months
‘ago—defaced and marred so
badly that the entire sign was
“painted out” for a time a-
waiting time to redo the en-
tire project.
MOUNT JOY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1970
Victory was sweet for the
fans, for the school and for
the team. But as far as the
players were concerned, their
efforts were principally dedi-
cated to their coach, Deon
Staley, who is confined to the
General hospital.
The team was in charge of
Coaches Al Brooks and Jim
Sourbaugh Friday.
It was a tough ball game,
characterized as a pitchers
duel,
Biggest
Featuring a scene depicting
the peace treaty signing at
the end of the Civil War, the
Mount Joy Leisure club’s
float won top honors in the
Saturday Memorial Day float
competition.
The scene showed two gen-
erals— one Confederate and
one Union — and their aides
sitting around the table sign-
ing papers.
The parade, staged on Main
street from Angle to Park,
probably was one of the big-
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However that doesn’t tell the
full story as far as winning
pitcher Bruce Sutter was con-
cerned. Climaxing and ending
a brilliant high school athletic
career, he dominated the Don-
egal effort.
Starting slowly and almost
falteringly, he grew stronger
and stronger each inning un-
til it was a poetic privilege
for him to make an easy as-
sist to first base for the final
putout.
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gest the community ever
staged—from an
point of view.
Police Chief J. Bruce Kline,
who has driven the police cru-
iser at the head of many par-
ades in Mount Joy, said em-
phatically this week that
Saturday’s crowd was the lar-
gest which ever has lined the
curbs and sidewalks.
There were people all
along the line of march. Usu-
ally there are areas (in the
hollow west of the railroad
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attendance
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in County Baseball Crown
When the ball club was in
trouble—and it was a couple
of times—it was Sutter who
put it there as he would mo-
mentarily falter. But, it was
Sutter who would pull -em
out of the hole. On one oc-
casion he picked off a Spartan
runner who was taking a too-
long lead off third.
If the New Holland team is
named the Spartans, it was
Sutter who worked like a
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Parade
crossing, for instance) where
there were few, if any people.
But, this year there were peco-
ple from beginning to end.
Kline, who not only rode
at the head of the parade but
circled back and brought up
the tail end, said that
from the time he lead off at 2
p.m. until he finished his full
route and re-opened the street
to through traffic was within
just a few minutes of two
hours.
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Donegal high school’s 16th
annual commencement was
held Tuesday night, June 2,
and 154 seniors were gradu-
ated!
The program, held in the
D.H.S. auditorium, was cli-
maked by the presentation of
diplomas by J. Edw. Charles,
president of Donegal School
board.
Three student speakers pre-
sented the program on the
theme, “This Is My Country,”
with Susan Hurst, Charles D.
Waser, II, and Patricia Aileen
Longenecker discussing the
assets, liabilities and hope of
uates 16th Class
America.
The Rev. Richard W. Koh-
ler, pastor of St. Mark’s Uni-
ted Methodist church, gave
the invocation and the bene-
diction and Robert Brinser
was the organist.
The address of welcome
was given by class president
Craig Gainer, Harietta Marie
Wein, accompanied by Mary
Elizabeth Watto, sang “Born
Free.” 2
Supervising Principal Rag-
nar F. Hallgren presented the
class and Principal Donald
Drenner announced the fol-
lowing awards:
New Tax
Monday, June 15 is the
deadline for the filing returns
for Mount Joy’s new occupa-
tion privilege tax.
The tax, which became ef-
fective as of January 1, is to
be reported by both self em-
ployed people and by em-
ployers to the borough treas-
urer.
The period of report is
from January 1 to May 13.
Treasurer Robert Kline,
who also is designated by bor-
ough council as collector of
the new tax, said last week
that there have been a few
returns made to him bu
that he anticipates the bulk
this week.
As passed by the borough
council, the tax applies to al-
most everyone who works in
the borough of Mount Joy,
whether he is paid by wages,
salary, commissions, fees or
by whatever other means, in-
cluding income as a self em-
ployed person.
Payment is owed by any-
one who has a total of $1,000
in compensations. ;
Responsibility for collection
the borough has ruled, is
placed squarely upon the em-
ployer, who is instructed to
deduct the tax from the
Now Due
workers’ pay.
The tax is $10 per worker
per year.
Original estimates were that
the tax would raise about 15
thousand dollars for the bor-
ough general fund.
However, there are indica-
tions that the total may run
higher.
Mechanics of filing the tax
returns and payment of taxes
collected require that employ-
ers file two forms with the
treasurer. One is a copy of a
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business
given by
Stanley Heisey,
education award,
Ronald Hart;
Mary Elizabeth Watto, col-
lege preparatory award given
by Mrs. Catherine Bennett;
and the Reader’s Digest Vali-
dictorian award, ennis
Frank, the industrial arts a-
ward, given by the Mt. Joy
V.I'W.; Charles D. Waser II.
the English award given by
the Mount Joy office of the
Lancaster County Farmers
National Bank; the G. Walter
Sloan Science award, given
by G. Walter Sloan, and the
Armstrong Laboratory associ-
ation Merit award for techni-
cal and scientific excellence;
Brenda Stoner, Mount Joy
Joycee-ettes scholarship; Peg-
gy Coyle, the Mt. Joy Busi-
ness and Professional Wom-
en’s club scholarship; and
Dennis Hay, the engineering
award, presented by the fam-
ily of and in memory of Rob-
ert B. Hoffman.
The 1970 class of D. H. S.
held its baccalaureate service
Sunday night, May 31, at the
high school auditorium.
The speaker was the Rev-
Wayne Zunkel of the Church
of the Brethren, Elizabeth-
town.
Also participating in the
service were: the Rev. Jay
Earl Martin Jr. of the Mount
Pleasant Brethren in Christ
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Beginning Saturday, and
continuing each Saturday
during the month of June, bi-
cycle licenses will be issued
in the Mount Joy Borough of-
fice, it was announced this
week by Police Chief J.
Bruce Kline.
The office will be open and
staffed with special assistants
between 9 am. and 3 p.m.
All youngsters in the com-
munity who do not have
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their yellow 1970 bicycle tags
should make arrangements to
procure them one of the four
Saturdays this month.
Boys and girls should have
the following information
with them when they make
applications: name and ad-
dress, telephone number, date
of birth, serial number of
their bike, color of bike,
name of bike and wheel size
ofg the bike.