By R.A. R. Next time you see a televis- ion ‘picture of the President of the United States boarding his helicopter, say to your- self, “That big bird is guard- ed by a Mount Joy boy!” ® oo © And, it's true! ®e oo o Tom Pennell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pennell, 25 Mount Joy street, has that im- portant job. ®e oo © A U. S. Marine sergeant, Tom is one of a select Corps which guards not only the president’s whirley bird, but others which transport high officials of government. ® © © A veteran of a year’s ser- vice in Vietnam, he is a 1967 graduate of Donegal. He trained at Parris Island and following his return to the states went to Quantico, Va., where special training was given for his special assign- ment, e @ oe He has one more year of service before his tour of du- ty is completed. e © eo A point which should b> made for the benefit of high school boys concerns the rigid check which was made before Tom was accepted for this guard duty. ® oo © A special investigator came to Mt. Joy and talked with many bpeorle who would know the young Marine and would know about him dur- ing his growing up years. They checked him from A to Z and as he laughlingly said, “They found out more about me than even I knew.” ee o © Now, there is a possibility that his experience may open some important doors for him —gdoors which may lead to opportunities in the not too distant future. : ® ©® oo Yes, opportunities which do not come to a youth who sets up a cloudy record for himself during his teen years. ® oO © Interestingly, two Mount (Turn to page 5) = BULLETIN Mount Joy's ONLY Newspaper VOL. 70. NO. 29 MOUNT JOY, PA. a at EARLY PAPER post Office Hits Outgoing Because of Christmas next Friday, this paper ‘will be published one day early next week. Advertisers, correspond- ents and others with mater. ial for the Christmas-week paper should be certain ‘that their information is in the newspaper office by Monday, Dec. 21. Following the usual cus- tom, there will be no pub- lication of this paper ihe week of Dec. 28-Jan. 2. Mount Joy post office, ap- parently, passed the peak of its Christmas rush on Mon- day, Dec. 14. That day, the canceling, machine totaled 20,021 pieces of mail, a record for 1970. A normal day may see 2- 500 to 3,000 pieces through the Mount Joy machine. However, another peak of activity in the post office is just now hitting the busy mail room. Incoming mail is growing, growing, growing. No count is made of the number of incoming mail. But, as surely as other post offices around the country hit peaks of outgoing mail, with- in a day or two, other post offices must be responsible for delivery. Each year, outgoing mail hits its heaviest load on a Monday about 10 days ahead of Christmas. On that day the post office receives cards Devoted to the Best Interest and Welfare of Mount Joy WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1970 TEN CENTS Mail Peak and mail which has readied by the senders the weekend. The 20,021 figure recorded on Monday compares with 19,085 on Monday, Dee. 15, 1969. That, been over however is not the record cancellation day in the Mount Joy office. Mon- day, Dec. 16, 1968, the cancel- ing machine ran up a stagger- ing total of 24,143. Musser Establishes Consulting Service Unique in this community and unusual even in one of the nation’s big manufactur- ing industries, a new business is being formed in Mount Joy. - To serve chocolate manu- facturers and confectioners, a consulting service has been established by Jay C. Musser, 214 Marietta avenue. Formerly executive vice- president and assistant gen- eral manager of Klein Choc- olate company of Elizabeth- town, he has opened an office and installed a small lab to handle certain necessary functions connected with a consulting service. He will be working with peculiar problems of manufac- turers and users of chocolate, cocoa, confectionery coatings, and other chocolate flavored products, providing product analysis, process evaluation and technical studtes. Establishment of such a service is one of Musser’s long-standing dreams. He has been in the chocolate business since early in 1941, when he still was a college student. He joined Klein choc- wolate company as a chemist on a part-time basis. The opportunity to form the consulting service came when the Klein company re- cently sold its plant to the M. & M. - Mars company and he chose to remain in Mount ‘Of This and That’ One of our Mount Joy rea- ders of the Bulletin is a cen- tenarian, Abram Bradley, of Florin avenue, who celebrat- ed his 100th birthday on Nov. 21. This week we learned of a reader who is 94 years young, Mrs. Carrie Grosh, who lives at 2001 Paxton Ave., Harris- burg. Miss Mary Keck, 10 Henry Street, who came into the Bulletin to pay Mrs. Grosh’s subscription, said she is in reasonably good health, except for her eyesight, and enjoys having the paper read to her each week. All ages seem to read the ‘Bulletin, for Wally Zerphey came into the office last week to subscribe for the paper as a Christmas gift for his son, William, 12 years old, who lives in Lancaster. “He .said he wanted the ‘Bulletin for Christmas, and when a 12-year-old boy shows that much interest in reading the hometown newspaper, I thought I should get it for him,” Wally explained. We agree, and are flattered to have our newspaper used as a welcome Christmas gift! Ww 5 *» Christmas is fast approach- ing as any grade school child, harried mother or overburd- ened postman will tell you! by the editor's wife ‘Mother,” a ten-year-old ‘boy said Tuesday morning when he got up, “I've got butterflies in my stomach!” “Are they ‘Christmas’ but- terflies?”’ his mother asked. “Yes, I think so,” he re- plied. He went to school, but we can imagine the “butterflies” went along! There were just too many interesting-looking packages hidden away in his attic for a normal 10-year-old boy to be very comfortable! * * %» ? The Christmas lights in Mt. Joy are just as beautiful as ever! Last year, it seemed that spotlighted door wreaths were the most popular form of dec- oration. This year it seems to us that candles have that hon- or! There have always been many homes that used the “candle” thecme—with a sing- le candle or a half a dozen in each window all over the house. There's nothing pret- tier! But this year there are all the window candles, plus large outside candles flank- ing doorways or lighting up a walk or lamppost. Candles are definitely “in”! * " * . Another thing we notice (Turn to page 8) Joy and pursue his dream ra- ther than join the new organ- ization and face the possibil- ity and probability of being transferred to another loca- tion. Musser, who is a native of Elizabethtown, has had an outstanding career in the chocolate industry. He not only moved steadily upward in the Klein organization but he has been in great demand as a speaker and instructor in industry activities. He has been a prolific writer on sub- jects connected with the in- dustry and has been active in the trade organizations of the chocolate business. In 1968-70 he was president of the Penn- (Turn to page 8) Legion to Hold Annual Party for Children The annual Mount Joy Le- gion’s Christmas party will be held at the Wilbur Beahm Jr. high school on Thursday, Dec. 24 beginning at 10 a.m. An array of professional entertainers will delight the children in®this all-live show, featuring clown acts, ventril- oquists, magic, audience par- ticipation, etc. Chairman Lee Ellis has in- dicated that this will be one of the finest programs ever presented by the Legion and welcomes all children from ages 1 to 80. D.H.S. Sets Yule Concert A free concert of Christmas music will be presented Fri- day, Dec. 18, at 8 p.m. in the Donegal high school auditor- ium. The public is invited. The concert will feature a number of selections by the Brass Ensemble, under direc- tion of Glen Leib. The Junior high chorus will sing the fa- miliar carols, “Good Christ- ian Men Rejoice,” “Christmas Morn is = Dawning.” and “Christmas Comes Again”. Accompanists are Kim Lauv- er, Mike Kohler and Dean Buchanauer. The highlight of the even- ing will be the senior high Concert Choir’s presentation of the Cantata, ‘Night of Mir- acles,” arranged by John W. Peterson. Soloists are: Philip Nissley, Nicola Markley, Douglas Witman, Barbara Sloan and Susan Nissley. Principal narrator is Vicki Kendig, with pianists Sharon THE BULLETIN'S Cheer Club Listed below is the name of a shut-in, an elderly person, or some other member of our community to whom a card or a message of any kind would mean much. Your thoughtful- ness ‘will be deeply appreciat- ed by them and their famil- ies. - MISS WILMA EATON Room 423 St. Joseph's Hospital Lancaster, Penna. Miss Eaton, 80, lives ai 122 East ‘Main Street. A lifelong resident of Mount Joy, she is hospitalized following a fall Dec. 8 in which she broke her hip. ” Steckbeck and Sabina Frey Organists are Sharon Zim- merman and Mary Jane Esh- accompanying the choir. elman. Both Choruses are un- der the direction of a new directress, Mrs. Bonita Ward of Annville Mrs. Ward has graduated from Lebanon Val- ley College with a B.A. in Musical Education. The program will be con- cluded with both choruses combining in the singing of ‘Let There be Peare on Earth, an arrangement by Sy Miller and Jill Jackson. Friendship Fire Company Elects Officers for '71 Chief officers of Friendship Fire company No. 1, Mt. Joy, were re-elected Thursday night, Dec. 3, as firemen held their annual re-organization meeting. James Schneider was re- elected President for a sixth term and Frank Good Jr. was elected Chief to head the fire company far the fourth year. Other officers named were: Ronald Alleman, first vice president; Dennis Grove, 2nd vice-president; William Char- les, recording secretary; Jas. Heilig, asst. recording secre- tary; Dennis Fackler, financi- al secretary and treasurer; Dennis Grove, assistant secre- tary and treasurer; Christ Charles, trustee; James Mar- kley, assistant company chief; Thomas Markley, chief engin- eer; Gerald Grove, chief hose director; George Hedrick, chief chemicalman; Lee Shank chief hose and ladder director; Earl Geltmacher, Captain of Fire Police; Leo Shank and Earl Geltmacher, delegates to county associa- tion; Ron Alleman and Bill Char- les, alternate delegates; Bill Weiland, Gerald Grove and Frank Good Jr., delegates to Zone 7, and James Markley, Carl Wagner, Leo Shank, Hu- bert Rice and Don Alleman, Ent. committee, Christmas Customs Grow Ever wonder, as you deck the branches of that prize spruce or hemlock, who trim- med the first Christmas tree? Or when folks first ‘“discover- ed” the existence of Santa Claus? Or who sang the first Christmas carol . . . . hung the first Christmas stocking— chose a strategic spot for the first mistletoe? Some Christmas customs are surprisingly recent, while others date back to antiquity. Some have remained un- changed since their inception while others—like the stories of Santa and what he carries in his sack—have shown fas- cinating evolution. There is no mystery about the modern Christmas tree torped with its bright star . ablaze with lights «ond heaped underneath with co- ored packages — but in old- en times it was shrouded in myth. For this holiday decoration we are indebted to the old Northern European belief that the trees of the forest were inhabited by god-like spirits. The Germans brought the trees into their homes to ap- pease these “spirits” and show them they were wel- come at the Winter Solstice ceremonies. Later, in the 8th century, St. Boniface convert- ed the German pagans and (Turn to page 2; Sect. II) Two Nabbed for Assault Two men were free on bail this week following an alleg- ed assault early Tuesday at a Mount Joy tavern. They are: Albert J. Cooper 24, of 81 East Main street, and Ronald G. Wagner, 23, of 1319 Sanfard Avenue, Lan- caster, arrested and charged with aggravated assault and battery upoa Niclolas Hern- dez, 30, 210 E. Main street, Mount Joy. The assault is alleged to have taken place at Vivian's Cafe, 30 North Jacob Street. Hernandez was found slumped in the middle of Mt. Joy street by neighbors. He was treated at the scene by a local physician and then tak- en to the St. Joseph’s hospital in Friendship Fire Co. ambul- ance. Charges were filed by local police in the court of Justice of the Peace Paul Cassel, at Manheim. a 30 sein nts Tang ie eS Salah I i SRL a a rei —— os gies Ch a A a i.
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