» 2D Sh < po 30 out 2 07 CA . ow wv 2 . p % Mount Joy's ONLY Newspaper — Devoted to the Best Interest and Welfare of Mount Joy . a By R. A. R. VOL. 71. NO. 26 MOUNT JOY, PA. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1971 TEN CENTS Because it isn't on the HS Tod, Many SOD. AT DONEGAL HIGH not have seen +t, those who would like to see : { 4 x! — a big change, they should drive out to see the new Mt. Pleasant church. eo © ® A fine new structure, situ- ated immediately. south of the old church, overlooking the valley, the new edifice replaces completely the old church, oe © eo The old building has been entirely removed and the site graded, seeded and already green grass is appearing. The new church has been land- scaped and a stranger would not realize that another church building had been standing on the lot as recent- ly as this past summer, ee © ® What to do about the bell tower on the Friendship Fire company building remains somewhat of a oroblem. ee © ® An electrical storm * last July banged the roof, knock- ing off some slates and caus- ing some other minor damag- es. © ® Because of its height and particular type construction, it has been hard to persuade anyone to make the repairs. One suggestion was to level oft the steep part of the roof and make a flat top. ee © ® More recently a steeple jack has been called in to have a look. He quoted a price of near $1,000 to repair the damage. ® ©° ® In the meantime, a scaffold which was erected to give in- spectators an opportunity to take a closeup, look stands waiting. ®e © © It's a strange world we live in — the law says that there may not be prayer in class rooms but the school board always opens its meetings with prayer! ® oO » One of the interesting items being collected these days is insulators. Mostly, they are old telephone insulators made of glass or pottery — which were designed to carry open wires on the cross arms of telephone poles. ® oo o O. K. Snvder, for instance, has a sizable collection which he uses colorfully & decora- tively in the windows of his west Main street office. ® 6 © But, what we started to tell is that the other day we saw some big big insulators, apparently - from high-voltage electric lines being used dec- oratively on the front of the home of a utility employee. ® oo © While telephone insulators which come in different col- ors and materials—measure 21% to 4 inches, the electric ones used on the big towers are a foot or more in height and are interesting shapes. » ° @® The 1971 fall sports season at Donegal high school has closed and the statisticians are making their tabulations. » ® ® One overall fact is that football, soccer and hockey have resulted in 32 victories, 48 losses and eight ties, %» eo ©o In the meantime, the D. H. S. basketball squad has been suited up and has been prac- ticing since Nov. 1. First var- sity game is with Garden Spot on the DH.S. floor on Nov. 30. Wrestlers began drills Nov. 10 and will open their season Dec. 19 with Lam peter Strasburg. '7 2 County Science Fair The 1972 County Science Fair will be held at Donegal high school, it was decided last week as the School Board held its November meeting Thursday, Nov, 18, in the library of the high school, The Lancaster area fair is to be staged on April 11-14. Each year the event is mov- ed from one school to anoth- er. It has been several years since it was at Donegal. The board of education al- so said that slightly new rules will govern exhibits in the Donegal Science Fair this year, Grades seven and eight will have voluntary projects grades 9 - 12 for college pre- paratory groups will be re- required to do a project or an alternate research paper, and non-academic classes will be required to do a written report or a project. In other business, the board —Accepted the resignation of Mrs. Carol Brown, Grand- first grade teacher, effective January 25. —Accepted $1,329.75 as the final payment from the Joy company in the settlement of its assets and dissolution of the organization, (The com- pany now has turned over to the school a total of $41,329- 5. —Employed James Kuntz as high school gymnastics coach for the 1971-72 year. —Was informed that water- way between the new River- view school and Marietta’'s borough park has been clear- ed and mowed. The- board’s annual reorg- anization meeting will be Hershey Heads Church Council The Mount Joy Interchurch Council has elected Charles E. Hershey, from the Church of God, as its president for next year. Harry Bert, pastor of the Mount Pleasant Breth- ren in Christ church, is the vice - president; Mrs. William Fackler, from Chiqg- ues United Methodist, is sec- retary; and Richard Martin, from the St. Mark’s United Methodist church, is treasur- er. Ten community services and several projects have been planned for next year with 15 churches in the area participating. held on Thursday night, Dec. 9, at 8 p.m. in the high school library. Two high school pupils Scott Albert, president of the Student Council, and Joe Kel- ler, vice-president, appeared at the board meeting and ask- ed that the council be allow- ed to have representatives at- tend board meetings in an ad- visory capacity. It was pointed out that such permission to have rep- resentatives was given to the Student Council several years ago. THANKSGIVING SERVICES Services will be held at 10 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day at St. Luke’s Episcopal church in Mount Joy, with the rector Rev. Donald Whitesell in charge. Both the junior and senior choirs will sing. % Donegal Seniors To Give Play “Ten Little Indians,” a 3- act mystery will be presented by the senior class. of Done- gal high school on Friday & Saturday, Dec. 3 and 4, at 8 p.m. in the school auditori- um. The play, by Agatha Chris- tie, involves 10 persons invit- ed to a deadly party which has an unknown murderer as the host. Leading roles in the play will be taken by Linda Gris- singer, Rockney Feeman and Alan Secrest. Other members of the cast will include Mike Shank, Peg- gy Westafer, Jean Heilig, Sam Gottschall, Scott Albert, Ber- nard Shimko, George Fitzkee and Casey Kraus. The play is under the dir- ection of Miss Carol Behl, ADVENT WORKSHOP On Sunday, Nov. 28, at 4 p.m. at Saint Mark's United Methodist church, an advent workshop will be held. This will be a family-type experi- ence. Each person is asked to bring a covered dish. Projects will be made and ideas shared for Christmas. There also will be a period of Carol singing. ‘Of This and That’ This time of the year, the tempo of life begins to quick- en. Even though one should hide the calendar, he would know that the holidays are al- most at hand! Two completely delightful events were held in Mount Joy this past week. They were quite different, but alike in that they featured ‘‘home town’ talent—Dboth in people and places! The first was the Joycee- ettes’ fashion show Wednes- day night at Beahm junior school. All of the models were Mount Joy children, women, and (2) men! They did an excellent job, quite professional, and the fashions they modeled were gay, inter- by the editor's wife esting, practical and stylish. The audience seemed to be enthusiastic about many of the dresses, coats, sweaters, skirts, evening gowns, etc. shown, and were definitely re- sponsive to the many door prizes, punch and home made cookies at the intermission! It was a gala evening. # * * The second pre-holiday ev- ent was the Mount Joy Busi- ness and Professional Wom- en’s club's candlelight “Tour of Homes” Sunday afternoon and evening. It was extremely well at- tended, and all those making the rounds of the 14 stops on the Tour must have felt well (Turn to page 12)
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