9m we WN - PTT eW. - By R.A R. School population in Done- gal District was down last year. Not a great deal—but down! ® © o The number of different pupils registered dropped from 3139 to 3094. Average daily attendance went from 2983 to 2932. Average daily membership went down from 2861 to 2809. ® © eo “Where’s Second street?” someone in-the room asked. ® ® oe In Mount Joy, you mean? ® © » “Yeah, in Mount Joy!” %® ® © It wasn’t that he wanted to know. He just wanted to fin- ally tell what he knew after everyone else had exposed his ignorance. ® © o As it turned out, street in Mount Joy runs from Fairview street east, then north to a deadend, thru the SICO warehouse building complex. e © o About this time each year we have been checking the traffic count as recored by the electronic device located on Route 230, west, near Clearview, ® © © It has been interesting, ov- er the years, to see the count grow and then to check it last year after the new ex- pressway was opened. : ®e © eo We had looked forward with some measure of antici- pation to the 1971 summer check, noticing what differ- ence, if any, was made by the opening westward to the Hershey-Elizabethtown road. ® ©& © But—if you looked closely, you will notice what we dis- covered. The counter, along the south side of Route 230, at the edge of the road be- tween the Clearview restaur- ant and the bowling lanes, has been removed. ® oo o Thus, no more counting at at that point. ® © o At long last, the final leg of the Wood street recon- struction job is in its final stages. (Turn to page 16) Second = BULLETIN Mount Joy's ONLY Newspaper — Devoted to the Best Interest and Welfare of Mount Joy MOUNT JOY, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1971 TEN CENTS VOL. 71. NO. 8. Blame Human "Error for Fish Kill in May A ‘human error” is blam- ed for a recent fish kill in Little Chiques creek and a $1,000 fine has been paid by the Mount Joy Borough Au- thority to the Commonwealth, A letter acknowledging re- sponsibility for the kill has been received from National- Standard company by the Borough Authority, which alreadl has been reimbursed, Bernerd Grissinger, Authori- ty chairman, said this week. The kill occurred on or a- bout May 15 and was termed by fish and waterways offic- ials as relatively small. Size of the fine, apparently, was based upon the fact that some six years ago a similar fish kill happened as a result of mechanical fault. Grissinger said that the lo- cal firm made a voluntary re- port of the incident immedi- ately after the poison spill. State officials hold the au- thority responsible for the incident because the Killing agent—in this case cyanide— passed through all or part of the Authority’s sewer system facility. One of the investigators who walked the stream bank back in' May just after the spill told a local official that he handled one fish which (Turn to page 16) Florin Fire company is to have a brand new pumper-tanker, hopefully by next spring. Plans are to dispose of two presently- owned pieces of equipment, turning into cash to apply toward the $30,000 price tag on the new truck. Fire Chief John Henry Lutz said this week that the truck, to be built on a Dia- mond-Reo chassis, has been on order for about a month. Plans call for a pumper combination which will provide 750-gallons of water a minute from the pump and a 1,500 ‘gal- lon carrying capacity in its storage tank. Although, most pumps on fire trucks in this immediate area are mounted mid- ship, fire underwriters heartily approve the front method and point to a number of advgntages, Lutz said. The two pieces of fire-fighting equip- ment to be disposed of are a 1948 La- France pumper and a tanker which is mounted on a 1950 model chassis. Both Florin Orders $30,000 Fire Truck will be sold outright when the time comes. Decision to purchase the new truck is culmination of company discussions and proper ‘debate over a long long period of time, the chief revealed, One of the problems with fire trucks is that underwriters do not approve equipment more than 20 years old, Lutz said. It is the age rather than the use which makes the fire machinery subject to retirement, The new truck is to be a conventional style job-built by the American Fire Ap- paratus company in Michigan. While the Florin Fire company does not now have the full amount of purchase price, the chief said that “we’re working on it.” Included in that area are two planned carnivgls for sometime later this summer, When the new truck arrives and the older ones are disposed of, the company will be left with three pieces of equip- ment.” 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 Harriet Johnson Hamlton Arms 336 South West End Ave. Lancaster, Pa. Miss Johnson was a resi- dent of Mount Joy for many, many years on Marietta Ave. She is now bedfast. EDITORIAL One of the biggest changes in local government this community has ever known will begin Monday, August 1, when Mt. Jcy’s recently-elected borough manager assumes his new duties. A man with high qualifications and equally high recommendations will become the administrator of the community, handling both the borough and the water and sewer authority. He will be serving a highly-motivated coopera- tive program, shared by the two units of government on a share-and-share-alike basis. The cooperation and feeling of need for the com- munity by the men who know the most about the borough business is significant and serves as an 1m- portant indication to the citizens of the community. If these men, who have studied the situation and lived with it for years feel that a borough manager is needed, then the rest of us have a moral obligation to be equally cooperative. To suddenly assume that all the ills and short- comings of the community will suddenly be cured and that every facet of local government immedi- ately will be changed and made perfect is not a real- istic viewpoint. The new manager will bring some new ideas, some new methods, some new and fresh viewpoints, not to mention an unbiased view of our present situ- ation. All these things are good and as the weeks and (Turn to page 5) Scheol Employs Given Award for Heroism Repair Architect To supervise rebuilding of the roof of the Maytown ele- mentary school building, and to direct several other major Donegal School District re- pairs, Buchart Associates has been retained as architects. The firm, which in the past has designed buildings and major renovations for the dis- trict, estimates that cost of Maytown roofing will be a- bout $15,000. , An urgent project, the board placed the receiving of bids and awarding of con- (Turn to page 16) U. S. Air Force Chief Mas- ter Sergeant Charles L. Hall- gren, has received the Air- man’s Medal for heroism in- volving the voluntary risk of his life at Ubon Royal Thai AFB, Thailand. ‘ Sergeant Hallgren, son of Mrs, R. Hallgren, 269 Mari- etta Avenue, rushed to the area where an aircraft had overshot the Ubon runway and crashed August 21, 1970. Disregarding leaking fuel and the possibility of fire, he removed barbed wire enclos- ing the aircraft cockpit, en- abling the crew member to ‘Of This and That’ by the editor's wife What does Washington Boroing! have that we don’t have? That question was most in our minds Sunday af- upper-who were Like many other people driving through Washington Boro on Sunday, ternoon as we drove throughwe stopped and bought some the little Susquehanna Riverof the tomatoes, plus a few community and saw stand af- roasting ears. What a feast! ter stand piled high with box- The tomatoes were unusually es of red, ripe tomatoes! good — or was it just that In backyards and in small they were our “first” of the fields along the road we saw season? tall, green plants, staked up, full of big, green tomatoes. How do they do it? ® E3 Another “first” of the sea- Our son occured Sunday evening plants at home, put out goodas we attended a performance and early, and carefully tend-at the Ephrata Playhouse of ed, have hard, green fruit on them at the present time, They are a area only a few small, the musical, “Carousel.” Summer theatre in this offers a bountiful fare, (Turn to page 6) escape. The munitions disposal su- perintendent, who recently was promoied to his present rank, is a 23-year Air Force veteran. His combat service includes 20 months in the Republic of Korea and 12 months in Southeast Asia. At Ubon he served in the 408th Munitions Maintenance Squadron. He received the decoration during recent ceremonies at Fuchu Air Station, Japan, where he now is assigned at Fifth A.F. headquarters. Sergeant Hallgren is a ’'47 graduate of Mount Joy high school. He and his wife, the form- er Marie Chacon, have two children, Charles L., 16, and William H., 14. Vesper Music In Memorial Park The Interchurch Council of Churches in Mount Joy will sponsor, ‘‘A Night of Music in the Park”, on Sunday eve- ning, August 8, at 7 p.m. Thirteen churches of the community will each have 5 to 7 minutes of special music in the form of vocal or in- strumental numbers. The program will be held in Memorial Park. In case of rain, the service will be in the W. I. Beahm Junior High School. good month away from eat- Wheat Harvest at High Tide in Lancaster county area is at high Wheat harvest and in the Mount Joy tide! And, a lot of farmers are mighty hap- py as they roll their big trucks to mar- ket. The 1971 crop, as of Monday was paying $1.60 per bushel, which is 15 to 20 cents above the price a year ago. And, coupled with a good yield this season, the man who has been watching the market reports is inclined to be hap- pier than usual about the general situa- tion, Although a state yield average doesn’t exactly set the norm for Lancaster coun- ty and this immediate area, the fact is that 35 bushels per acre is about the Pennsylvania figure, In this immediate area, however, far- mers are running 40 to 50 and some claiming even more. One unconfirmed re- port was of 70 bushels per acre. Spangler’s Mill on north Barbara St. has been taking wheat long hours since harvest began several days ago, even run- ning the dumping pits Saturday night. In the meantime, the lineup of trucks with the golden harvest continues season- ably long. However, weather being cooperative, the crop should be in bins within the next few days. Spangler people believe that ‘as much as 75 percent of the wheat already was in on Monday. However, until the weather pattern of last weekend ended and the fields and grain were sufficiently dry there would not be resumption of cutting. Dumping facilities were running full blast early this week as the Spangler mill was taking about the same total quantities of grain as in the immediate past. However, plans are made and foun- dations already have been poured for add- ing another huge storage tank at the southeast corner of the mill property.
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