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VOL. 71, NO, 46 MOUNT JOY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1972 TEN CENTS: oe
By R.A.R.
tudes
Why do Donegal boys and
girls consistently do well in
the county Science Fairs?
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For what it’s worth, we say
that they do well ‘Secause
someone cares whether or not
they do well.
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Because the parents care,
bzcause the teachers care, be-
cause the school administra-
tion cares — then the pupils
egin to care.
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When that many people be-
gin to care, compzatitive atti-
take over. When the
competitive attitudes come in-
to focus, things begin to hap-
pen,
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Its no secret among those
who know that one Donegal
-high school student this year
waz shooting — and shooting
hard —to win the
grand championship. He did
not and he was disappointed.
He had a fine experiment and
he knew it. But, the judges
slanted anether direction and
he missed. =
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But, because a competitive
attitude has grown up, he and
those around him, gave a
great deal of thought about
the type experiment to be
done, how to present it, how
to stage the display, etc. ete.
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Donegal has been willing to
spend a few dollars to indoc-
trinate its voungsters into the
arena of science fairs and the
winnings this year and in the
past have paid big dividends.
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And — don’t forget! Suc-
cess begets success, whether
it be in the area of science
projects, athletic, band or
any other field of endeavor.
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For whatever it’s worth —
a friend said one day last
week “I would have said
that Big League baseball is
my favorite sport. But you
know, I haven't missed it
at all this spring.”
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Next Tuesday, April 25 —
Pennsylvtnia will be center
stage under the main spotlight
of natipnal politics, sharing
the stage only with Massachu
setts.
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We'll be going to the polls
in whatever numbers) to set
the stage for the fall elections
(Turn to page 186)
Chcrus te Give
Spring Concert
On Friday, April 21, at 8
p.m. in the D.H.S. auditorium
the Donegal high school chor-
us will present its annual
Spring Concert.
The chorus, under the direc
tion of Mrs. Bonita Ward, will
be presenting as its main
numbers; selections from
“Fiddler on the Roof”, George
M. Cohan selections, theme
from “Ben Hur” and the pop-
ular song “Aquarius/Let the
Sunshine In”. The girl’s chor-
us will sing “The Water is
Wide” and “Everything is
Beautiful’.
In addition, Sharon Zimmer-
man will sing “Time”, Cindy
Rineer will sing “More”, and
a girls quartet composed of
Sabina Frey, Sue Mateer, Sue
Hess and Marcia Mellinger,
will sing “My Cup Runneth
Over.”
As a special feature, there
will be a salute to Donald
Staley, former Donegal H. S.
teacher. Because he was in
the Marine Corps, “Freedom
Isn't Free’ and the “Marine
Hymn” will be sung.
The public is invited. A sil-
ver offering will be taken.
N ion &
McGovern ‘Win
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Nixon and McGovern are the winners!
At least, that is the way eighth graders at the
W. I. Beahm junior high school voted Thursday,
April 13, as they held a mock election.
Nixon polled 77 percent of the “Republican”
votes. George McGovern had 60 per cent of
the
“Democrat” vote, followed by Humphrey and Wal-
lace.
Taking part as representatives of the various
candidates were: Joe Meszaros, Jeff Boulton, Willy
Keener, Thomas Hamill, Mike Kohler, Steve Shope
and Steven Hassinger.
Many Honorsior DHS
Donegal district boys and girls have done it again!
And this time it was on home territory.
In the 1972 Lancaster County Science
Fair’ Donegal
high school and Junior high school youngsters have carried
off a huge,
disproportionate share of the honors.
The fair, held last week in the D.H.S. gymnasium, in-
cluded approximately 150 exhibits, all previously rated tops
in their own schools and brought to the county level with
high hopes.
Donegal captured 27 honors
in the show. The chemistry
division was a near Donegal
sweep as a boy and a girl
claimed first and second plac-
es. In addition, two of the
three honorable mentions in
that field went to Donegal.
In the field of physics, Don-
egal entries had another near
sweep taking first and third
places and one of the honor-
able mention spots.
Second place in general sci-
ence and three honorable
mentions were Donegals. And,
12 of the 35 special awards
(more than a third) were
Donegals.
And, to grace the top of the
entire heap, the winner of re-
serve championship honors
was a 17-year-old Donegal
senior — Linda Grissinger,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.
Bernerd Grissinger, Park ave-
nue.
It was a tremendous effort
of success and continues a
Donegal tradition of victory
in science fairs which dates
back many years.
Exhibits were placed Wed-
nesday, judged Thursday and
open to the public on Thurs-
day and Friday.
Linda and Marie Mease of
Warwick high school will take
their exhibits to New Orleans
for the International Science
Fair May 1 - 6. Marie, grand
champion, lives in Lititz. He
exhibit concerned a study of
active transport in snails.
The sparkling, dark-haired
Donegal reserve champion
won with a study of the ef-
fects of Vitamin C on mice
and its protective value again-
st ionizing radiation.
Donegal students made ma-
jor placements in every divis-
ion biology, chemistry,
physics and engineering and
in general science and landed
award winners in every cate-
gory of special awards except
three of the 12 which were
given.
Dinegal winners were:
Reserve champion - Linda
Grissinger.
Chemistry
First, Sharon
Steckbeck, “Is It Safe to
Chew on a Pencil?” second,
William Lenox, “Pollution So
lution: A N2w Use for glass.”
Honorable mention, Cynthia
Myers ‘“‘An Evaluation of Wet-
ting Agents’, and John Frey,
“Thermal Energy Capacities
of Liquids and Solutions.”
Physics Caleb Hess, “Py
roiobic © Transducer:” third,
William J. Wagner, “The Effi
(Turn to page 6)
‘Of This and That’
It was inevitable that, in
listing the things that have
happened in Mount Joy dur-
ing the past few years, we
forget something.
Sure enough! It was the
beautiful new parish house of
St. Luke’s Episcopal church!
Commodious and lovely, it
adds space and facilities much
needed by the congregation,
and is another in the long list
of accomplishments in Mount
Joy in the past 16 years.
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Driving around in the Spring
rain Saturday afternoon we
had an interesting experience.
We “happened onto” the big,
new Bomberger’s store at Elm.
The last time we were in
that area, “Bomberger’s’”’ was
a crowded little country gen-
eral store, stocked with every-
by the editor's wife
thing from groceries to hard
ware to drug items! It was a
quaint anachronism in his
modern day.
But no more! It is large and
airy now, with wide aisles,
still exceedingly well stocked
with everything from grocer-
ies to carpet, to hardware, to
baked goods, to gift items. It
is amazing to find such a large
store in such a relatively un-
populated area.
We talked to a sweet-faced
woman in an open office at
the front of the store. We
complimented her on the sur-
prising set-up, and admired a
large family portrait hanging
on the wall of the office.
As it turned out, she was
the wife of one of the two
brothers who now run the
(Turn to page 6)
Another new industry is to be added to Mount
Joy’s growing list of manufacturing plants.
Announcement was made this week that Parkwood
Homes, Inc., of Bristol, Indiana, will erect a sizable fa-
cility on a 39-acre tract of land at the east edge of
Mount Joy, now owned by J. Roy Bréneman.
Clayton Merrill, vice-president of the Indiana com-
pany and its treasurer said
option to purchase the
ground within 30 days.
Located along Route 230,
the tract lies b2tween the
highway and the Penn Central
railroad, immediately east of
National Cash Register com-
pany’s plant and stretches to
Eby Chiques Road.
Parkwood homes, a firm
which 1s about 10 years old,
is taking its first expansion
step and has chosen Mt. Joy
from a number of possible lo-
cations in the East.
The choice was made last
week on the basis of desira
bility of the site, location to
markets and other important
company needs.
One of the final pieces of in-
formation upon which the de-
cision was made came as re-
sult of soundings made about
Name Editors
For '73 Emerald
Pripcipal positions of res-
sonsibility for editing the 1973
Donegal high school “Emer-
ald’ have been announced by
John W. W. Loose, yearbook
advisor,
Other appointments
complete staff will be
at a later date.
The appointments include:
William Lenox, editor-in-
chief; Gregory McKain, assist-
ant editor-in-chief; Heather
Mumma, copy and layout edi-
to the
made
tor; William Wagner, photo-
graphic production manager,
and Betsy Barto, business
manager.
Leisure Club
Holds Meeting
The Leisure Club of Mount
Joy met Monday, April 10th
with 65 members present.
Three new members were
present: William Fackler,
Marthene Dupler, Mrs. Anna
Yerger and one visitor Ray-
mand Laurer.
Thank you cards were re-
ceived from the hospitalized
and shut-in members.
There will be a white ele-
phant sale at our next meet-
ing May 8. A bus trip is plaa-
ned for the 10th of May to
Flemington. Envelopes were
stuffed for Mount Joy Com
munity Council and $25 was
donated toward the Memorial
Day parade.
ELECTED TREASURER
The Theta Chi Chapter of
Delta Zeta Sorority at Lock
Haven State College recently
neld officer elections for the
coming year.
Miss Teresa Wegner, daugh
terf of Mrs. Dorothy Wagner,
Mount Joy Rl, was elected to
the office of chapter treasurer.
Miss Wagner was initiated in
to the Chapter in the spring
of 1971, and is a junior maj-
oring in elementary education.
HAS OPERATION
George Groff, Mount Joy
borough councilman is a pa-
tient in St. Joseph's hospital.
He underwent a cataract op-
eration on Tuesday.
land
that his firm has signed an
and expects to break
two weeks ago.
Drillings Made
Drillers were on the propos-
ed site, taking samples of the
rock underlying the area up-
on which the buildings are
planned.
Company officials have been
in the Mount Joy and Lancas
ter area several times during
the course of the site selection
operations and have been well
pleased with the information
they have received concern
ing all facets of the proposed
plant construction.
In fact, so well pleased
have they been that already
plans have been drawn for
the buildings and contractors
have been asked for bids.
Behind Schedule
Information here this week
is that an Indiana contractor
has been selected to do the
work.
Merrill said that the com-
pany’s original plan for build
i3 maybe 60 to 90 days ‘be-
hind schedule and the organi-
zation is pushing as rapidly as
possible to get into production
here.
Although it was not an-
nounced officially, indications
are that the plant will be ap
proximately 70,000 square
feet in size and that its plan
ned employment will be 150
people.
Growing Needs
Parkwood makes a mobile
home which has had good re-
ception in its field and the
young firm feels an urgency
to expand its facilities in this
part of the country to meet
its growing manufacturing
needs.
President of the company is
Raymond Bassett.
Bristol small northern
Indiana town, located east of
South Bend.
is a
Building & Loan
Annual Meeting
Officers and directors of the
Mount Joy Building & Loan
were elected Wednesday nite
April 12, at the organization's
annual meetings, held in the
National Central bank.
Directors, all reelected
three-year terms at the stock
holders meeting, included: EI
for
mer Z. Ginder, Robert E
Kline and Richard A. Rain
bolt.
Other directors inciude:
John M. Booth, Glean Y. For
ney, John N. Weidman. Geo.
H. Keener, Gerald Sheetz
Christ Walters.
At their reorganization
meeting, directors re-elected
the following officers:
M. Booth, president:
H. Keener, vice
Glenn Y. Forney, secretary:
Robert E. Kline, asst. secre
tary, and Christ Walters.
treasurer. C. Richard Hallgren
is solicitor.
and
John
George
president
IN HOSPITAL
_ Elmer Forwood, south Mar
Ket avenue, is a patient in
General hospital. He was hos-
pitalized Saturday, April 8,
with a heart condition. He is
in Room 418.
NEW PLANT PICKS MOUNT JOY:
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