By R.A.R.
One of the Bulletin’s guest
editorial this week deals with
the critical problem of seed
corn which has been develop.
ed to produce corn resistent
to the corn blight.
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We publish this message as
a worning to all who will be
planting corn this spring. We
too have heard these same
stories from private sources
and it is well that farmers
know NOW of the problem.
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A few days ago State Sen-
ator Richard Snyder was the
speaker for the annual Cham.
ber of Commerce dinner,
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Snyder, a former newspa-
perman, incidentally, made a
number of points which, are
provocative in the framework
of present concerns. But, one
quotation is uncommonly ap-
propriate. It is so direct that
we asked the senator for a
re-quote—just to make sure
we had his exact words.
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They are:
“Mount Joy has the quali-
ties of an ideal community.
“It is large enough to have
its own government, yet small
enough for every citizen to be
heard.
“It is large enough to have
a ‘down town,” yet small en-
ough that people greet each
other.
“It is large enough to have
a fire company, and small en-
ough to keep friendly interest
after the fire is over,
“It is large enough to have
a ball team, and small enough
to give every player a chance.
“It is large enough to have
a newspaper, yet small en-
ough- that one’s friends are
mentioned in it by name.
“It is large enough to be
proud of, yet small enough
that everyone feels a part of
it.
“America’s towns and vil-
lages are the healthiest part
of its society.”
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He has said so well what
most of the people in our
community feel that his quo-
tation needs to be clipped,
pasted in the hatband of ev-
ery person in “Mount Joy.
And — read and reread with
deep appreciation for our
blessings.
" Joy Saturday,
THE
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VOL. 70. NO, 42
Apple Butter
Sunday Set
The second annual Jaycees
Apple Butter Sunday will be
held on Sunday, March 28th,
to raise money for summer
camps for children handicap-
ped by mental retardation.
Jaycees will canvas Mount
Joy that day selling jars of
apple butter to help the han-
dicapped children to attend
the campus, which are espec-
ially equipped and staffed for
them. (Last year more than
1400 boys and girls benefitted
from this project.) Two hund-
red thousand containers of ap-
ple butter are expected to be
sold in Pennsylvania on
Apple Buttér Sunday.
Box Factory
To Phase Out
Notice that the Mount Joy
Paper Box company, W. Main
St, will be closing its doors.
has been given its production
force.
No definite date for work
stoppage has been set but no
orders are being taken and no
plans for continuing the pres-
ent operation beyond present
commitments are in sight.
Employees were called to-
gether last week and the en-
tire situation presented to
them,
The box factory business,
begun by the late Larry Som-
(Turn to page 4)
‘To Hear Federal
Government Problems
R. Donald Reedy, field rep-
resentative for Congressman
Edwin D. Eshleman, will sit
in the post office at Mount
March 27,
from 9 to 10 a.m.
Anyone having any prob-
lems at all involving the Fed-
eral government is invited to
come in and discuss it with
Reedy.
He also will be at Leola
post office from 11 a.m, un-
till noon.
‘Of This and That’
A group of bright-eyed, al-
ert youngsters toured The
Bulletin last Wednesday, on
press day.
They were the fifth grade
pupils of Edwin Miller at Seil-
er school. There were 24 of
them, and they were fascinat-
ed by the big press ‘“‘grinding
out” the weekly Bulletin,
They were especially lucky
in the time that they were
there, for they got to see the
pressman and his helper put
—a huge, new roll of newsprint
paper on the press.
They also wacthed intently
as the linotype operator turn-
ed out “lines o’ type” at his
big machine which is a little,
tiny bit like a typewriter.
Other pieces of machinery
which they enjoyed were the
electric paper cutter, the stap-
ling machine, the round-corn-
erer, addressing machine and
the ludlow.
They asked pertinent ques
tions, and were most atten-
tive and well-behaved. It is
always a pleasure to have the
school children come to visit.
(We've discovered that they
are always pleased with our
treat as they are leaving — a
Mount Joy Bulletin pencil
and a _stick of red strawberry
by the editor's wife
BULLETIN
Mount Joy's ONLY Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest and Welfare of Mount Joy
MOUNT JOY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1971
TEN CENTS
An Invitation to an Open Meeting
An open meeting for every interested
citizen in the community is to be held on
Wednesday evening, April 7, at the Mount
Joy Borough building.
For discussion will be the possibility
of a medical center of some kind through
cooperative effort between Mount Joy and
Elizabethtown,
George Nauman,
president
Mount Joy Community Council, said this
week that plans have been completed to
have Glenn Irwin of Elizabethtown pres-
ent to tell of the work which
has been
done by the Elizabethtown Medical Cen-
ter Committee, of which he is chairman,
He will discuss the needs and the pro-
gress of the proposal for this area.
The meeting is scheduled for 7:45 p.m.
and every citizen of the community who
of the
tend.
is interested is given an invitation to at-
Set Community Survey Time Table
A plan of operation and a
time table for making an in-
depth study of the communi-
ty of Mount Joy has been set
up with a Fall target date
established for a final sum-
mary of findings.
The attack upon the survey
was drawn last week as the
Mount Joy Jaycees gave at-
tention to a project which
they assumed from the Mount
Joy Community Council.
During the month of April,
organizational plans will be
formulated, In May, June and
July, the survey itself will be
made; in August the tabula-
tion and compilation of infor-
mation will be done, and in
September, hopefully, the re-
sults of the study can be an-
nounced.
Al Newlin, president of the
Mount Joy Chamber of Com-
merce, said this week that
three members of the Jaycees
—Ronald Hawthorne, Andrew
Reymer and James Gingrich
— have accepted chairman-
ships of three different teams
td make the survey.
They will delve into seven
different aspects of communi-
ty concerns. Hawthorne will
be in charge of the team
which will stress religion and
education; Reymer will head
the industry, business and pro-
fessions group, and Gingrich
will lead the government and
citizenry committee.
During the month of April,
a series of questions, designed
to draw out pertinent infor-
mation about the borough
and its people, will be drawn
up. What those questions are
or how many there will be is
not known at this time.
However, it has been decid-
ed that each team will have a
two-part questionnaire, Half
~ of the questions will concern
licorice!
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An interesting aftermath of
this visit was the appearance
a day or two later of a lone
little boy, who came into the
office and asked if he could
see “back there”.
No one was available at the
moment for a ‘guided tour,”
but we told him to go on back
and look around. The linotypz
operator kindly showed him
how his machine works and
let him watch the metal slugs
roll out for awhile. Then,
back in the front office, he
said “Thank you” and was
gone!
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Lancaster City, we under-
stand, got its “onion snow”
early Tuesday morning. Mt.
Joy’s came in the late after-
noon. For awhile, it looked
as if a real blizzard were
coming out of the west! Then,
as suddenly as it had begun,
it stopped, leaving a thin
blanket of white on the
ground. Those who like snow
had better look quickly — it
may be the last one of Spring
1971. The first day of April is
only seven days away!
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general subjects and half will
deal specifically with the area
of special concern of that
committee. It was felt that in
this way, a generous cross
Special Organ
Concert Sunday
"A special Sunday evening
organ concert on the new pipé
organ at the new Trinity Lu-
theran church will be given
on Sunday evening, Mar. 28,
beginning at 7:30 p.m.
The artist will be John W.
Sankey Jr. of Hagerstown,
Md., who is sales representa-
tive of M. P. Moller, Inc,
manufacturer of the organ,
Sankey studied the organ
while a student at Gettysburg
college and continued after
graduation with Dr. Alexand-
er McCurdy, Dr. Earl Ness,
and Fred Roye of Philadel-
phia, and with Maestro Fern-
ando Germani of Rome, Italy.
Sankey presently is organ-
ist and choir director of
Christ Episcopal church in
Woodbury, N. J.
Everyone in the community
who is interested is invited
to attend this concert,
section of opinion can be
gleaned when interviews are
begun.
Each team will be made up
of several people. Personnel
will be drawn from several
different sources. Newlin said
that organizations belonging
to the Community Council
will be asked to provide the
manpower,
Teams may possibly have
as many as ten or more mem-
bers each.
The plan is to make face-
to-face interviews to deter-
mine community feelings a-
bout a number of important
questions. Whatever opinions
or views given will not be
identified with the person be-
ing interviewed. The thought
by the planning group is that
if people are free from being
specifically identified, they
will feel freeer to give truer
answers to questions which
have certain sensitive aspects.
Air Condition Riverview
Air conditioning for 25
class rooms of the Riverview
school was approved Thurs-
day night, March 18, by the
Donegal District Authority
and the Board of Education.
The installation is to be
made by the Harry Ressler
company of Mountville on a
bid price of $38,226.
Only proposal was made to
the Authority.
The project voted Thursday-
plus areas already air condi-
tioned, will provide this facil-
ity for all areas of Riverview
except the large cafetorium
area,
School Board members,
when informed by the Auth-
ority about the results of the
bidding, held a lengthy dis-
cussion, finally voting 6 to 3
in favor of the work.
The Authority later ap-
proved the bidding and voted
to proceed.
Engineers’ estimate on the
project had been $35,000.
During the Thursday meet-
ing, it was reported that Don-
egal electric bills for the Riv-
erview school are running un-
der budgeted amounts for
1971-72,
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 Lizzie Copenheffer
Landis Homes, R.D, 3
Lititz, Pa.
Miss Copenheffer resided
in Mount Joy for many years
at the John Haines home, R.
D. 2. Mrs. Haines (dec=ased)
was a niece of Miss Copen-
heffer.
She will be 99 years old
on Sunday, March 28. She is
a deaf mute. Her mind con-
tinues very keen, and she
communicates by the sign
language and by writing.
The information was given
in view of the problems that
have been experienced by
some other school buildings
in the county which also are
all electric and are using
power in excess of estimates.
In other business, the Board
of Education accepted with
reluctance and regret the res-
ignation of Henry H. Hack-
man, who wishes to retire as
of July 1, 1971. He will have
completed 40 years as a teach-
er.
As a teacher of high school
physics and chemistry, he is
head of the D.H.S. science de-
partment.
Also resigning is Mrs. Dor-
othy Wenger, reading teacher
at Riverview, who does not
wish to teach full time after
the present school year,
A $10,000 check has been
received from the Joy com-
pany as another partial settle-
ment of the assets of the com-
pany. Previcusly a $30,000
amount was received by the
school and it appears prob-
able that there will be still
another smaller final amount.
All funds received have
been earmarked and invested.
Richard Schwartz and Glenn
L2ib headed a committee rep-
resenting the Band Parents
club. They outlined some of
the activities of the organiza-
tion and pointed out that ap-
proximately 13 percent of the
student body of Donegal jun-
ior and senior high schools
are involved with band activ-
ities. That is the largest single
participation in extra curri-
cular affairs, Schwartz said.
The problem of an open
drainage ditch in front of
Grandview school, along Onr-
chard Road, has been refer-
red to the building committee
for recommendations,
Easter vacation for Donegal
school has been set for April
9 to 12, both dates includad.
A day of school lost on Mar.
5th because of snow lopped
one day from the vacation on
April 8.
It was announced that it
may now be six months be-
fore legal papers can be clear-
ed to make possible the sale
of the old Marietta element-
ary school building.
Friday, April 2, marks th
end of the third student re-
port period. Secondary school
report cards will be sent
home on that date. Element.
ary school report cards will
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