By R.A.R. Last week the long-awaited Community Survey was launched by the Jaycees and people of the community were asked to answer ques- tions concerning various pha- ses of local activity. @ ®e o The consensus of opinion is that the questionnaire is not specific enough and is not geared to easy replies. e oe eo But, right or wrong, the questionnaire has been issued and the committee needs re- plies, ® ©& © Sanctioned by the Commu- nity Council, the survey will have an influence upon what some of the upcoming com- munity projects will be. ® ® © Ideas, studied thought and factual answers are needed. Those replying are urged to not only answer the questions but to attach an additional sheet upon which additional community betterment ideas are expressed. e © eo These are the days during which the 1972 borough budg- et is being studied and pro- jections made for both income and spending. e © o The proposed budget will be given its first public view on Monday night, Dec. 13, when borough council holds its monthly meeting. School Board To Reerganize The annual School Board reorganization meeting re- quired by Commonwealth law will be held by Donegal Dis- trict on Thursday night, Dec. 9th. Scheduuled for 8 p.m., the meeting will be held in the library of Donegal H. S. The meeting also will con- stitute the board’s December meeting. Reedy to Sit At Post Office R. Donald Reedy, field rep- resentative. for Congressman Edwin D. Eshleman, will sit in the post office of Mount Joy Saturday, Dec. 11 from 9 to 10 a.m. : Anyone having any prob- lem at all involving the Fed- eral Government is invited to come in and discuss it with Mr. Reedy. Borough Council To Meet Monday The Mount Joy borough council will hold its Decem- ber meeting on Monday night Dec. 13, in the assembly room of the borough building. THE BULLETINS 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. Charles W. Roth 315 Birchland Avenue - Mount Joy. Pa. Mr. Roth, well known loc- al barber, has been a patient in Lancaster General hospital for the past four weeks. He underwent major surgery on Tuesday. - = BULLETIN Mount Joy's ONLY Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest and Welfare of Mount Joy VOL. 71. NO. 28 MOUNT JOY, PA.,, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1971 Two JA Companies Forme Two new companies have been organized in the com- munity and are in business, manufacturing and selling their products! Named ‘“Donstrong Com- pany” and ‘“Doneco”, the two are part of the Junior Achie- vement program of Lancaster county, which is designed to give boys and girls a working insight into how businesses are formed, how they buy raw materials, how they man- ufacture and how they sell products. Included are such important free enterprise sys- tem basics as stock, bonds, of- ficers, salaries, taxes, profit, marketing and, yes, satisfact- ion, The two companies were formed back in mid-October at Donegal high school with some 60 boys and girls from the sophomore, junior and senior classes participating. Each company meets one Set Children's Yule Party The annual childrens Christ- mas varty of Mt. Joy Sports- men Assn. will be held Sun- day., Dec. 19 at 2 pm. All children of members and of the auxiliary are invited to attend this party. Santa will be on hand. Eileen Martin will lead in singing Christmas Carols. Richard Bloom will show films. Santa will give each child an orange and a candy bar. Cookies and chocolate milk will be served. Eleven to Try For District Band Eleven Donegal high school students will audition on Sat- urday, Dec. 11, at Palmyra high school for District Band placement. These students are: Molly Fry, contrabass clarinet; Bill Wagner, trumget; Nancy Ro- land clarinet; Gloria Longe- necker, flute; Lolly Baker, baritone sax; Keith Smith, bass clarinet; Sharon Miller, clarinet; Sharon Zimmerman, oboe; Ken McCoy, tenor sax; Tim Eshelman, trumpet; and " Melody Mummau, flute, Mel- ody is a student at W. I. Beahm junior high school. Students from the lower district are judged by band directors from the upper dis- trict and vice verse. Glen Leib, DHS band dir- ector, says, “We have quite a lot of musical talent in our school, and the students have been working hard since last year in hopes of making Dis- trict Band. It is both an hon- or to the students selected and also to the schools repre- sented. The competition is stiff, and it is difficult to make this select band.” Donegal had three students represented last year. Cafeteria Staff Holds Christmas Party The cafeteria staff of Don- egal School District held its annual Christmas party at the Rheems Fire Hall on Thurs- day, Dec. 2, at 6:30 p.m. Thirty-six employees atten- ded from Donegal high school Beahm Junior high school, Grandview elementary, May- town, Riverview elementary & Seiler elementary schools, A family-style chicken dinner was served. The Riverview staff had charge of the pro- gram and games. The surprise of the evening was the appearance of Santa Claus to distribute presents, Santa bore a striking resem- blance to Elam Shenk, also an employee of Donegal School District. How do you describe the look on a child’s face when she comes home with a good report card? Glow and Tell! New Assignment Fer Diffenderfer S. Fred Diffenderfer, Beth- lehem, Pa., a native of Mount Joy and formerly of Lancast- er, has been named a vice- president © of Pennsylvania Power & Light company and has been assigned to report directly to the company presi- dent, Jack K. Busby. He currently is vice-presi- dent for marketing, but in the new position, which becomes effective January 1, he will be on special assignments for the president. Diffenderfer, a Mount Joy high school graduate, also has served the company as vice- president in charge of the Lancaster district. He began his electric utili- ty career as a power engin- eer with the former Edison Electric Co. which merged with PP&L in 1930. In 1942, he was advanced to division industrial engineer at Lancas- ter, and two years later was made division commercial manager, Diffenderger became man- ager of industrial sales in ’51; assistant to the vice-president in 1955; manager of business development in 1960, and Lancaster division manager in 1964. Dcnegal Drops Opening Pair Donegal’s early season bas- ketball efforts are off to a slow start as the Tribe has bowed in its two opening games. Against Garden Spot, last week, it was a 61-48, defeat and Tuesday night, Dec. 7, it was an 81-74 affair against Re=d Lion. Lou Sargen led the Indians against the opener at home, hitting for 16 points. Casey Krause had 11. Tuesday, at Red Lion, the scoring was better balanced, Krause and Sargen each had 14 and Bob Myers had 13. Ba- ker and Betty came in for 10 each. Donegal JV’s won both games — Donegal 42 Garden Spot 27; Donegal 69, Red Lion 48. Friday night, Dec. 10, the Indians will continue their pre-league competition, going to Octorara. The next week they will play at Lampeter - Strasburg. On Dean's List Three area students have been named to the Dean’s List at Shippensburg State college for outstanding schol- arship during the Fall Semes- ter. They are: Richard Michael Glatfelter, 2025 State street, and Steph- en Longenecker, 5930 Lemon street, both of East Peters- burg, and Ellen Dale Mikota, 227 Memorial Drive, Man- heim, night each week to conduct its business, including the manufacture of its products. Donstrong meets on Mon- days and manufactures a lam- inated cutting board. Doneco operates on Tuesdays and makes a peg board game. Both use the facilities of the D. H. S. shops, for which they pay rent, as any other business meets its obligations of holding its location. The Donstrong company, for instance, has sold shares at $1 each and has a capital of $134. When the year ends —next May — the company will be dissolved, bills paid, stockholders repaid and the profits divided in the same way that any business would do. In January, the two com- panies will join 16 others in the county to present a Pro- ducts Fair, which will be held at .Park City. Junior Achievement came to Donegal district when Don- ald Betty, manager of Arm- strong Cork’s Ceiling plant in Marietta, did some spade work and brought the school and the J.A. organization to- TEN CENTS d at Donegal High School gether. Now, each of the two com- panies has advisors who help, explain, guide in a gentle way and instruct the boys and girls, Ron F. Steinkamp is the liason man between the two local companies and the coun- ty J.A. organization, of which Robert H. Blanchette is exe- cutive director. Donstrong advisors besides Steinkamp are Phil N. Filia- trault, Forbes H. Burgess and Robin D. Herr. Assisting Doneco are Larry H. Breed- ing, Bruce Leech and John J. Mikita. All are part of the Armstrong Corporation. Adult leaders of the pro- ject are greatly pleased with the way the boys and girls have accepted the J.A. pro- gram, how they have formed their companies, elected their officers and are now turning out their products. Boys and girls are learning Steinkamp pointed out, that it takes money to make mon- ey; that products are priced for sale based on costs of raw material and manufacturing costs and that a added slice costs and that an added slice Snow Removal Plan Set For the first time in its his- tory, probably, Mount Joy has advance design for removal of snow from its Main street! Present plans call for remo- val to be started shortly after there is sufficient snow fall to justify the action. And — already there is a fund of $400 ready to meet the first bills and at least $1000 more is expected as the total plan unfolds. With the backing of the Chamber of Commerce and the cooperation of the newly formed local merchants asso- ciation, the plan has been formed with the fullest possi- ble cooperation of the bor- ough manager. Here’s how the plan is to orerate: When there is a snow, a committee of Al Newlin,. An- drew Reymer, George Ulrich and Clair Mummau are to make an appraisal as to whe- ther or not the fall is suffic- ient to justify removal. If their answer is “yes”, equipment made available by the borough and manned by the borough and fuelel by cash from the “Snow Remov- al” project will swing into action, The business district has been divided into primary and secondary areas. Prim- ary, from New Haven to Bar- bara is to be cleaned on both sides first. Secondary, which are adjacent side streets and Main street beyond Barbara and New Haven will be clean- ed as there is financial partic- ipation by individuals and businesses. To start the removal, the Chamber of Commerce has contributed $200 and the mer- chants organization has con- tributed another -200. Additionally ,teams of solic- itors are making contact with businesses and individ- uals, suggesting a $10 contri- bution for each meter in front of their places. It is emphasized that the removal here mentioned is not part of the borough’s normal snow plowing opera- tions of streets and alleys. The program is in addition to the usual clearing job and is designed ta keep the busi- ness area of the community open and the streets available for normal purposes. Removal grew out of Cham- ber of Commerce Board meet- ings, at which over a period of several months investiga- tion was made into the possi- bilities of improving the loc- al Main street situation dur- ing snow times. N-S Manager Moved to Alabama Charles J. Ebeling, manag- er of the Mount Joy plant of National - Standard, has been appointed division manager of National-Standard company’s Tire Textile Division, Colum- biana, Ala., according to Thomas H. Pearce, chairman. The southern plant is the major domestic manufactur- ing facility for steel wire tire cord, which is used in belted- bias and radial tires. Further expansion of the division is being planned at Columbiana in 1972, and other locations are under consideration for plant sites in the future. Ebeling has been manager of the company’s wire plant in Mount Joy since 1963. He also was division manager: of the Perforated Metals Divis- ion, Carbondale, Pa. He join- ed the Athenia Steel Division of National-Standard, Clifton, N. J. in 1952, following grad- uation from Rutgers univer- sity with a bachelor’s degree in industrial management. Ebeling is a member of So- ciety for Advancement of Management, Board of Direc- tos of Manufacturers’ Associ- ation of Lancaster; Board of Directors of Lancaster County Community Chest; Chairman of Large Business Division, Lancaster county United Cam- paign: Board of Directors and Vice President of Mount Joy Chamber of Commerce; Jun- ior Achievement of Lancaster county. National-Standard is a div- ersified manufacturer of rein- forcing and specialty wire, metal products and machine- ry. The company operates 26 facilities in 13 states ui Ya A iA cfor W
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