Friendship Will Convert To Plectron Friendship Fire company— within a month or six weeks ~—will be shifting its emerg- ency alarm network to the new Plectron system. The change will become op- erative when a number of de- tails necessary to the project. can be completed. Permission and approval of the new system was given the fire company Monday night as Borough Council held its April meeting in the borough building. Fire Chief Frank Good Jr. explained that a new set of emergency telephone num- bers will be issued — at the proper time — to handle both fire and ambulance needs. The Plectron system cen- ters around an ultra modern electronic device which puts firemen in instant communica- tion with Fire Zone T's base radio station, located at the home of John Henry Lutz, on Donegal Springs Road. Each fireman has a self-con- tained unit which responds from the base, giving notice that there is an emergency and calling him to the central station. When any person in the community needs assistance for fire fighting, he will call the number which will be giv- en wide publicity. The central dispatcher will handle the call and will push proper but- tons to notify the firemen of (Turn to page 5) Marietta Horse Show Date Set The Marietta Lions Club will sponsor its 25th annual horse show on Sunday, May 7. Competition is scheduled in 22 classes. The event will be held, re- gardless of weather, in Mari- etta’s War Memorial Park, starting at noon. David Shank will serve as show manager, and Norman Risser, Lawn, will be the judge. Events in which trophies or ribbons will' be awarded include, pole bending, 4-H western pleasure for girls, lead line pony for children under 7, 4-H hunt seat pleas- ure, novice walking horse, op- en western walking horse, pleasure pony driving, open three gaited, 4-H western rleasure for boys, owners’ walking horse, clover-leaf bar- rel race, pony roadster, child-- ren’s equitation, open 4-H English pleasure, amateur walking horse, pony roadster, pick-up race, western equita- tion, open pony under saddle for children under 12, open walking horse, open pleasure horse and open pony roadster. = BULLETIN Mount Joy's ONLY Newspaper — VOL. 71. NO, 45 Devoted to the Best Interest and Welfare of Mount Joy MOUNT JOY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1972 TEN CENTS COMMUNITY COUNCIL MEETS Council Passes Strong The April meeting of the Community Council was held Wednesday evening in the Borough Building at 7:30 o'- clock. Samuel Dyke, Presi- dent of the Lancaster County Historical Society spoke to the membership about Bicen- tennial Plans for Lancaster County. James Buehler, co-chairman of the Memorial Day Com- mittee, reported on the pro- gress of the parade plans. Or- ganizations wishing to enter floats should contact Mr. Buehler or Lee Ellis. Mrs. Ethel Foley, Memorial Day Co-ordinator, made avail- able the proposed schedule for the holiday weekend. Anyone planning an activity for the celebration should contact Mrs. Foley. The final schedule will be publicized at a later date. The Community Calendar is now posted in the Library window. If anyone would like to have club meeting dates or club projects posted, please call Mrs. Carl Hallgren Crowned Spelling Champ Brian Golden, a Grandview school sixth grader, is Don- egal District spelling champion! The son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry O. Golden, he won his title Friday, April 7, at the district spell off, held at the W. I. Beahm junior high school. There were 28 contestants from sixth, seventh and eighth grades. Runnerup was Cynthia Charles, a W. I. Beahm grade pupil. The champ and runnerup will represent the district in the county finals, to be held in the Abraham Lincoln jun- ior high school in Lancaster on Friday, April 28. Alternate to the champion- ships is Christine Heineman, an eighth grader. Those competing were: 6th Grade — Grandview — Barbara Foreman, Sue Brooks, Brian Golden; Seiler:—Debra Ross, Wendy Newcomer; Riv- erview — Lynn Bigler, Jeff- rey Mason; Maytown:—Denise Grimm, Tracey Schadt. 7th Grade — Mary Grace Bubel, Phyllis Shope, Cindy Charles, Nanette Pinto, Sandy Capped Seventy-two student nurses were capped in traditional Florence Nightingdale .cere- monies at Lankenau hospital, Philadelghia, April 9. Among them was Jane Louise Stoh- ler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Stohler of 10 New street, Mount Joy. The program marked com- pletion of the six-month pre- clinical period of the 33- month nursing course. Lankenau, which marks its 112th anniversary this year, was one of the first hospitals in the country to feature a professionally trained nursing service. ‘Of This and That’ It will soon be 16 years since we saw Mount Joy for the first time. We came here for a week- end visit, to look over the town and investigate its news- paper, to see if we might be interested in living here and owning the Mt. Joy Bulletin. It was love at first sight, in spite of the fact that the town was right in the middle of the installation of sewers. Streets were so bumpy and torn up that we had trouble getting an adequate look at the town. But we made the extra ef- fort, and were well impres- sed with the nice, neat homes, the schools, churches, parks, etc. We liked the broad fields that stretched away in all four directions, the beautiful, big farm homes and barns. So, three months later, we came back, to stay! It has been a busy, event- ful 16 years for Mount Joy! by the editor's wife Here are a few of the high- lights: Mount Joy's Main Street, which had a distressingly high “crown’” on it, was dug up, curb to curb, and re-built in- to a smooth, level thorough- fare. (Remember how all the local traffc darted around through the alleys for months, during the interim?) Florin has been annexed into the borough, almost doubling the town’s popula- tion. Five new churches have been built — Chiques United Methodist, Calvary Bible, the Florin Church of the Breth- ren, Glossbrenner United Methodist, and the new sanc- tuary of Trinity Lutheran. In addition, the Church of God, St. Mark’s United Methodist and Cross Roads Brethren In Christ have fine new parson- ages, and extensive remodel- (Turn to page 16) Bryant, Tammy Kulman, Bruce Martin, Greg Linde- muth. 8th Grade — Mike Kohler, Mark Anderson, Willy Keener Virginia Odenwalt, Karla Stark, Teresa Williams, Mar- ian Saylor, Cris Heinaman; Kraybill Mennonite — Rich- ard Winey grade 6; Leon Kraybill grade 7; Cynthia Hess - grade 8. Then only the champ and the runnerup were left in the competition, Cynthia was acked to spell inoculate. She missed and Brian spelled it correctly and closed the con- test by spelling laryngitis. He is a pupil in the room of William Thome. Miss Catharine Zeller, head of the English department, Donegal high school served as pronouncer. Judges were: Mrs. Mary Hall, Mrs. Jean Phiel and James Metzler. Samuel Harnish was in charge of the program and explained the rules of the contest and introduced the contestants to the assembly. State to Improve Cemetery Curve MS a sarety proyect by the state highway department, the “cemetery curve’ on Mari- etta avenue is to be given at- tention, it was reported to Borough Council at its April meeting, held Monday night in the borough building. As presently planned, en- gineering studies call for two trezs on the southeast side of the curve to be taken away and a guard rail installed; the roadway widened by taking two feet additional off the op- posite side, and repaving the ‘Abandoned * * Car Law *. * MUCH STUDY AND EFFORT INTO ACTION An ordinance which has been under study for many many months and which has been given untold hours of re- search and investigation was passed Monday night, April 10, by Mount Joy Borough Council on first reading. The new law pertains to abandoned autos. unsightly de- bris, trash, junk, etc. — a problem which has been difficult to handle under present ordinances and which has been a matter of much concern in this and many other communities. Mount Joy's proposed law is the result of a great deal of personal effort and council Monday night called their ac- tion “The Big One.” Council believes that when the ordinance finally is passed—which is expected to be at the May meeting—that a “Giant Step” will have been taken to give officials the power and the authority to “clean up” some of what they have in the passed term- ed “eyesores.” One of the features of the ordinance is that property owners upon which eyesores are located are made liable for the appearance as well as the persons who may be occu- pying the premises. Action for passage of the ordinance has been generated over a long period of time by many many people in the community who are vitally interested in making and keeping Mount Joy an attrac- tive place to live. Previously, the local ordin- ance has been called “weak” and inadequate to deal with the problems which have been of concern. Thus, on many many occasions when com- plaints of various kinds have been made, officials have felt unable to cope with the prob- lem and abate the nuisance. Such things as abandoned household goods, unused buil- ding materials left for a peri- od of 30 days, open storage of unsightly items ete. are all mentioned in the ordinance. As originally written, a 45- day period was mentioned, At Monday night's meeting, coun- cilmen gave a hint as to their feeling of urgency about the ordinance by shortening the time for giving of notices etc. to 30 days. Another ordinance, passed on first reading and set for final approval next month, e:tablishes a number of traffic and parking chang- es which are to be incorpor- ated into the local code. Called an amendment to the present ordinance, all new regulations previously have also been passed by council. They pertain to stop streets, park- ing, etc. In other action night, council: —Passed a resolution of appreciation for the services given the borough over a long period of time by the late Cletus Kaylor, borough super- visor; —Heard an explanation of a sudden upturn in the num- ber of parking meter tickets issued. Police Chief J. Bruce Kline said that ‘“Peopnle have gotten out of the habit of put- ting coins in the meters.” —Tabled a request from Henry Gingrich to erect “his- torical markers” at the corn- er of Main and Market Sis. until more information can be presented. —Discuszed the possibilities of joining with the state in a 30-50 funding project for im- provement of park and recrea- tion facilities and gave ap- proval to take initial steps to further investigate the possi- bilities. —Established a policy con cerning vendors on Saturday May 27. The day of the Mem- orial Day parade, vending li- censes will be issued only to local civic and church organ- izations and at no charge —Talked informalily about the use of a borough truck and men to assist in a con certed clean-up effort on Non day following the parade. Monday —Read a letter from the borough attorney giving an opinion that population is adequately divided between the three voting wards of Mt. Mount Joy. —Changed horough employ- ees’ pay pericd from one week to two. —Tabled a request from Dr. Newton Kendig for a Waivure of sub division regulations. He has proposed to make a strip of land now owned by the Penn Central Railroad along Sassafrass alley between Walnut and Barbara available for parking. Council wants more information. curve for 200 feet on eachap- proach. The roadway at that point has a 50-foot right of way, Borough Manager George Ul- rich said as he reported the plans of the state. Safety engineers who stud- ied the situation made their proposals but there was some discussion as to the possibili- ties of doing additonal work to further mprove the stua- ton in that area, which has been the scene of numerous accdents over the years. Army Private First Class Douglas E. Lehman, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter V. Lehman, Mount Joy R2, re- cently completed a 23-week fixed station technical con- troller course at the U.S. Ar- my Signal Center and School, Ft. Monmouth, N. J. Someone to be ‘Arrested’ Some unsuspecting, to get a scare in Mount out-of-state ‘raveler is going Joy on Saturday, April 15! Someone who happens to be driving through the town is going to be “arrested” by a member of the Mount Joy police force and “held”. They will not be in jeopardy... however. The “arrest” will be a fake and they will not be “held” against their wills. In fact, they will be invited to be the guests of the Mount Joy Lions Club at their annual Pan-ake Breakfast, which wll be held from 6 a.m. until noon at the Llons Activities pool. building, near the swimming The bseakfast is sponsored by the Lions as part of their continuing fund-raising efforts for community projects. JuOup J i - \T
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