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Summer Library Hours
The Mount Joy Library
Center will operate on a new
schedule for the summer,
Hours which the library
will be open will remain the
same for weekdays—from 3
p.m, until 9 pm. However,
beginning . with Saturday,
May 27, the library will be
closed all day Saturday.
This schedule will remain
in effect until after Labor
Day.
~ BULLETIN:
Mount Joy's ONLY Newspaper —
Devoted to the Best Interest and Welfare of Mount Joy ©
VOL. 72. NO. 50
MOUNT JOY,
PENNA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1972
TEN IEE
Donegal District Sets Record Budget Memorial Day Weekend
Friday, May 26th
6:15 p.m. — Mount Joy Midgets vs. Florin Midgets
(Borough Manager Geo. Ulrich and Robert
Kunkle will throw out first ball)
This is the year the Done-
gal school budget goes over
$3 million!
Thursday night, May 18. as
the Board of Education held
its May meeting in the Done-
gal high school library, it ten-
tatively approved a budget of
just under $3% millon.
Actually, the 1972-73 bud-
gat is $360,576 above this
vear’s figure and $608,349
above the year before.
The new budget, which
can not be approved officially
for 30 days, is set at $3,322, -
843.
However, there are no tax
increases called for to cover
that amount.
To raise the local share of
the record budget, the com-
munity will be called upon
for the following taxes:
1. 69 mill assessment on
real estate;
2. $10 per capita tax
3. Three-quarters of a per-
cent on earned wages.
income, and
4. Cne perceat on real es-
tate transfers.
Donegal district - residents
will pay $1,309,946 of the to-
tal anticipated expenditures.
Revenues from state sources
will amount to $1,606,198
and funds from federal gov-
ernment are expected to be
$47 360. Balance from 1971--
"72 amounts to $357.839.
The largest increase in the
budget is salaries for the in-
structional staff, which mov-
ed from $1,637,205 to $1.-
836,737.
The board will meet June
21 at 12:15 p.m. to take fin-
al action to adopt the budget.
—Announced that Donegal
school district will close clas-
ses for the year on Thursday,
June 8. Elementary schools
will close at 12 noon and sec-
ondary schools at 12:35.
There will be no food servic-
es that day. Pupils may pick
up report cards between 1:45
and 2:45 p.m. on June 9 or
between June 12 - 15. Cards
not picked up: will be mailed
later in June unless they are
held for school debts
—Raised the price of adult
admissions to athletic contests
next year to $1.25.
To Unveil Hershey Plaque
A former Mount Joy busi-
nessman- an industrialist who
later reached the pinnacle of
success, as measured by many
different yard sticks, will be
honored here Saturday after-
noon, May 27. y
As part of the Memorial
Day celebration, a handsome
bronze plaque will be erected
on a building at Jacob and
Donegal streets in which the
famous Milton S. Hershey
once operated a caramel fac-
tory.
The plaque is to mark the
site and to insure that in the
years ahead the coming gen-
erations will know that Her-
shey did have a business
here,
The erection of the marker
is sponsored by the Mount
Joy Chamber of Commerce.
President Albert Newlin is
in charge of the program,
which will be held immedi-
ately following the big Mem
orial Day parade—at about 4
p.m.
The property presently is
occupied by AMP, Inc., which
operates a plant in its own
building immediately adjac-
ent..
The plaque will be placed
at the northeast corner of
the building facing Donegal
street.
Hershey bought the proper-
ty late in 1891 from the Mt.
Joy Woolen Mfg. company
and on April 20, 1898 sold it
to George Brown.
Mobile Museum Coming
The Pennsylvania Mobile
Museum will visit Mount Joy
Saturday, May 27, as part of
the Memorial Day activities
and will be open to the pub-
lic at Main and Market Sts.
between the hours of 10 a.m.
tnd 6 p.m.
The Chamber of Commerce
will sponsor the public ap-
pearance of the museum
The tractor-trailer museum,
housing displays currently
based“on the theme, “The
Skills of Man,” uses a 44-foot
trailer as the exhibit area.
Dioramas have been designed
to trace the development of
human skills from those of the
Archaic Indian with his chip-
ped stone tools, through the
work of Colonial craftsmen,
the use of steam power, mass
. —
NEW A ARRIVALS
Frank S. and Kathleen
(Fultz) Grube, 66 West Main
street, a daughter, Monday,
May 22, at General hospital.
Eight Mount You girls will participate in the Mount Joy
Princess Contest, being sponsored this weekend by the Joy-
cee-ettes for the Mount Joy playgrounds. The public may
vote for the girls at
‘“a-penny-a-vote’.
The girls pictures
above and where they will be sitting soliciting votes on Fri-
day are: Front row (left to right) -
a (Union Bank); :
Annette Foltz (Mumma’s Fire-
Kulp; Heidi Weidner
Germer (Nat'l Central Bank),
stone);
Allison Hawthorne (Martin's Apparel);
Joi Shearer (Hi-Lo); Amy
second row - Donna
back row -
Laura Negvesky (Murph)y’s), and Jeanna Angelini (Greer’s).
production of steel, to the de-
velopments of the Atomic
Age and the triumphs of Ap-
ollo 8.
Conceived by Dr. S. K. Ste-
vens, Executive Director .of
the Pennsylvania Historical &
Museum Commission, as an
extension of the commission’s
services to areas with limited
museum facilities, the muse-
um has, since April of 1967,
visited a majority of Pennsyl-
vania’s counties. Under the
supervision of Mr. J. Duncan
Campbell,
William Penn Memorial Mus-
eum in Harrisburg, the mo-
bile unit has a two member
staff, Mr. Ross Grenard, Cur-
ator and an equipment oper-
ator.
Puppet Show
A special puppet perform-
ance for youngsters will be
held on Saturday, May 27th,
as part of the Memorial Day
weekend program.
Arranged to be held in
the Phillips Studio on Con-
cord street, the show will be
gin at 11 a.m. and will in-
clude the presentation of
“Jack and the Bean Stalk”
and “Hansel and Gretel”
In case of rain, the show
will be given at St. Mark's
church. There will be a 25¢
admission charge.
VESPER SERVICE
The Mount Joy Inter
Church Council will conduct
a Vespers Service on Sunday,
May 28 at 7 p.m. in Memorial
Park on Marietta avenue.
The Community Choir, un-
_der the direction of Miss Dor.
othy Schock, will participate
in the service. A trumpet
quartet from Donegal H. S.,
under the direction of Glen
Leib, will present special mu-
sic. Members of the quartet
are: Kevin Earhart, Tim Esh-
leman, William Wagner and
Donald Witman.
This service will be part of
the Memorial Day weekend
observance in Mount Joy. Ev-
eryone is invited to attend.
In case of rain, the service
will be held in St. Mark's
United Methodist church on
East Main street.
COIN CLUB
The Mount Joy-Florin Coin
club will hold its May meet-
ing on Thursday, May 25, at
the Mount Joy Restaurant.
beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Director of the.
Saturday,
10 a.m. -
May 27th
6 p.m.—Pennsylvania Mobile Museum
Main & Market streets (Free admission)
11: 00 a.m. — Puppet Show - Phillips Studio
In case of rain -
2:00 p.m. — Parade
St. Mark’s church.
4.00 p.m. — Dedication of M. S. Hershey Plaque by Cham-
ber of Commerce -
South Jacob street
— Bainbridge Band in Memorial Park
Crowning of Joycee-ettes Princess
attend church at Trinity
— Trap Shoot at Sportsmen’s Farm
— Vesper Services in Memorial Park (Inter-
7:00 p.m.
at Intermission (7:15 p.m.)
Sunday, May 28th
— Legion and V.F.W,
Lutheran
1:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
church)
(Community Chorus to sing)
: Monday, May 29.h
10:00 a.m.
—- Memorial Services at Memorial Park
(Legion and V.F.W.)
Weekend Projecis
Art Show — Saturday and Sunday, May 27 and 28 at
Phillips Studio. Saturday, 10
p-m.. until 5 p.m.
a.m. until 5 p.m., Sunday 1
Open House — Borough Building following parade
Library Book Sale — between Newlins and Murphys:
May 27th, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Seiler School and Home
South Market St.
During Parade:
Seiler School and Home,
Job’s Daughters,
ic Building;
Assn.- Barn Sale at Straub’s.
Saturday 10 to 2, Monday 4 to 6.
Lions Chicken Barbeque, May 27th, 11 a.m.
-4 p.m.
soft drinks aside Jack Horner's:
hot dogs and soft drinks;
in front of Mason-
Jaycees and Joycees, soft drinks and balloons along par-
ade route.
organizations.)
(Free vending permits on day of parade to local
Library to Held
Book Sale
Books still are needed for
the Book Sale that is being
planned for the benefit of the
Mount Joy Library Center.
‘Members of the community
and all patrons of the library
are being encouraged to take
a last look through their book
shelves to see whether there
aren’t some books they can
contribute to the sale.
Books may be taken either
to the library or to the Albert
C. Newlin store on west Main
Main street. These may be
dropped off until Friday eve-
ning, May 26.
The Book sale will be held
on Saturday, May 27. from
9 am. unti 5 p.m. on the
lot between the G. C. Murphy
Co. and the Newlin store.
New Trees
young trees have
been planted this spring in
Mount Joy’s Memorial Park.
Both are along the east side,
facing Delta street, and both
replace trees planted former-
ly but which were casualties.
Two new,
One is in memory of Lieut.
Robert E. Germer and the
other in memory of Charles
W. Heaps by the students of
Seiler school.
A third memorial tree in
the community has had an
appropriate marker installed
this spring. It is a young tree
at the south end of the girls’
hockey field on the lawn of
Donegal high school. It reads
“The Class of 1960, Friends
of Donald S. Staley, Teacher-
Coach, July 29, 1970.”
MARIETTA MUSEUM OPEN
The Marietta Museum will
be open three days during
the Memorial Day holiday, on
Saturday, Sunday and Mon-
day, May 27, 28 and 29, from
1 to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
Veterans Club
William F. Weaver, manag-
er of the Mount Joy G. C.
Murphy company store, has
announced that Welma M.
Garber, 67 East Main street,
has completed 15 years. of
service with the organization
and is now eligible for mem
bership in the G. C. Murphy
Veterans Club.
She was inducted into the
club at its 32nd annual re
union of veteran Murphy em
ployees, held this week at
the William Penn hotel in
Pittsburgh.
Other Murphy store em
ployees. with more than 15
years service who do not at
tend will reccive a share of
company comm n stock. They
are Manager Weaver, E {ith
Etsell and Mrs. Helen Weav
er.
The. 327 employees . who
join the club this year repre
sent 4.905 years of service
Each will receive a 15-vear
pin, a certificate of member
ship and will advance to the
four-week vacation plan.
Flea Market
The tenth annual Flea Mar
ket at Maytown will be held
on Monday, May 29, spon
sored by the Maytown Amer-
ican Legion Auxiliary, begin
ning at 10 a.m.
In case of rain
be no show.
there will
Emergency Medical
Calls
SUNDAY
AND
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
AND
Memorial Day
Dr. Thomas O'Connor