FW TST en ee vy Vg oo |] 1 Ny ww YY 1 =~ oa. vi MA YY) By R.A.R. We can’t refrain from using th: words — vertise’’. “It pays to ad- The rather trite statement is fortified by the following story about how Parkwood Homes happened to select Mount Joy as the location for its new Eastern plant, ® © o Thz mobile home manufac- turers specifically chose our borough because the site was idz=al, because the people they met here made them feel wel- come and because, in fact, the officials simply discovered “love at first sight’ with Mount Joy. ® © o But — more specifically! How did the Indiana firm hap- pen to be looking in this area? ® eo ® Many months ago Park- wood had determined that it would be advantageous to have a plant in the Eastern part of the United States. Of- ficials knew, in general, within a broad area, about where trey would like to be situat- ed. ® © ® So, one day one of the of- ficers noticed an advartise- ment piaced in one of the im- portant nationtlly circulated business papers. The adver- t:sement had been placed by Pennsylvania Power & Light company, inviting inquiries about plant location. ®e © o Parkwood answered the advertisement and P..P. & L. personnel made contacts. La- ter electric company repre- sentatives showed visiting of- ficers of Parkwood a number of availablt sites. ® © » Mount Joy was the choice! ® © ® So—it does pay to adver- tise. ® © ® A couple of weeks ago he was “Senator, Who?” ®e © ® But now the nation knows Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri. And, they know a lot more about him than those who were supposed to know him did when the question (Turn to page 16) ~ BULLETIN Mount Joy's ONLY VOL. 73. NO. 10 Parkwood Begins Prelim Work Although no actual con- struction has begun and will not until final plans are offici- ally approved and a building permit issued by the borough, Parkwood Homes has begun preliminary work at the site of its new Mount Joy plant. At the east edge of the town on Route 230, the site has been occupied by the Mec- Collough Construction com. pany of Elkhart, Indiana, and preliminary buliding locations determined. Ground was broken, offic- ially, on July 2%, with com- pany officials in a'tendance. The company: which has its headquarters in Bristol, Indiana, manufactures quality mobile homes which are dis- tributed throughout the coun- try. The Mt. Joy plant joins a growing mobile home manu- facturing industry in Pennsyl- vania and Lancaster county— all located to take advantage of the growing use of the product in the Eastern part of the United States. This is the first expansion by Parkwood into this part of the country. RECEIVES $45.000 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary church will receive $45,571.17 from the $60,742.40 estate of Fran- ces M. Frank, who died July 19, 1971. The estate was freed re- cently for distribution Thurs- day by Orphans Court Judge Thomas R. Appel. MARIETTA STREET Repairing of streets and curbs in Marietta, damaged by recent floods were sched- uled to get underway this week, William Breckline, Civil Defense - director, said street repair work will temporarily delay the borough’s collection of flood debris throughout the borough. : ‘Of This and That’ “If you can't find it here, you won't find it nowhere!” In this rather inelegant way a New York taxi driver ex- pressed his admiration for his b’g city early Saturday morn- ing, as he drove us from the Penn Central station to the United Nations. Nine hours and countless foot-miles later, we recalled his words and agreed that New York City is truly the c.ty with the ‘mostest’! In that short space of time we had visited eight places that one couldn’t see anywhere else in the world, and caught glimp- ses of enough interesting things to spend a lifetime in- vestigating! Madison Square Garden . the United Nations . . . Lin- coln Center of the Perform- ing Arts . . . Central Park . . the Metrepilitan Museum of Art . .. Radio City Music Hall . . . a very special “top of a skyscraper ‘restaurant . . . these we had visited and enjoyed thoroughly. But as as we dashed hither and yon in taxis, we observed the im- mensity and diversity of New York City and realized we were not even “skimming the surface!” s Of the places we visited, by the editor's wife we had seen all except the new Lincoln Center previous- ly. But they were all fascin- ating, just the same! Most impressive, perhaps, with its overtones of war and peace, was the United Na- tions. It’s humbling to see the Securily Council Chamb- er, where meetings are called when peace is threatened, the Soc’'al and Economic Council room, where problems of over population, pollution, and such are tackled on a world- wide basis: and the General Assambly room, where dele- gates from 135 countries meet to organize the many prcgrams of the United Na- tions. In our small group. of about 20 people taking a tour there were people from all sections of the United States, from Canada, Gerrhany and Ttaly — a miniature ‘United Nations” in itself. “High point” of the day, literally if not figuratively, was a delightful luncheon at noon at the “Topo of the Six- es” restaurant on the 39th floor of a Fifth Avenue sky- scraper. From our corner table we could look out in three directions over the city. (Turn to page 16) Newspaper — Devoted to the Best Interest and Welfare of Mount Joy MOUNT JOY. PENNA., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 9, 1972 TEN CENTS Set a Record and Raised Money It didn’t exactly make much differ- ence who won or lost the What really counted was how long the game lasted and how was raised for the fund. And, both those two objectives were met with excellence! he softball weekend at Marietta's as a new record: and disaster fund, The ball game, Marietta Disaster marathon, held last Memorial park, went 438 innings, set what is regarded raised mately $2.500 for the community's new featuring mately 40 players — ages 10 to 18 and including some girls-—began Friday, Au- gust 4, at 7 am. and continued through that day; tha nigat; all day Saturday; ball game! much money and through Saturday night until about 9 a.m. Sunday morning. At that time, after playing 438 inn- ings, it was preity much by unanimous consent that the game ended. “We were feeling pretty tired,” one of the 16.year- old players approxi- itors”. As far as admitted, hours of play. Actually, the score was 437 to 376 but no one seemed to care too much. The two teams were called “Home” and “Vis- It had been 46 anyone knew, the “old” softball marathon record had been 435 approxi- times of need. innings and 42 hours of play. The new disaster the Jaycees, is designed to give the community a cushion for giving help in fund, handled by Rebuilding Stone Bridge --- As it Was The stone bridge on Pink- erton road—washed out by savage Agnes _flood waters— is being repaired! Workmen already have be- gun the job of replacing ap- proaches and the bridge and it is estimated that it will be completed by sometime in Septembzr. Under a contract given by the county, Witmer and Mec- Coy of Mount Joy are doing the work and they will at tempt to make the bridge “as near r'ssible” like it was before June 21st disaster. In fact, the contractors have been interested in seeing pictures and art work done in the past to determine details of the original, Long one of the beauty spots of the area, it has bezn a much “painted” and much photographed structure, rem- iniscent of the days nearly 100 years ago. One of the elements of re- construction last week was a search for the “dats” stone, which was part of the mason. ry wall along the north side of the bridge — visible from the road side. Water has continued to be high in the Little Chiques stream and the stone had not been immediately recovered, To repair both the approa- ches and the bridge, much of the stone needed is coming Mini-Courses Approximately three-quar- ters of all pupils at Donegal high school will be involved this fall with a new system of English courses. And, each boy and girl will want to handle his own individual approach to the new system in his own partic- ular way. In fact, he will make some choices. What is to happen is that Donegal higa school this fall, for the first time will offer “mi” courses in English for youngsters in the 10th, 11th. and 12 grades A mini course is a nine- weeks course (half'a semest- er) and will count a fraction- al part of a semester's credit. But, each mini course stands alone and a pupil must pass each one of the minis or he will be pinched for sufficient credits toward graduation. In a general way, here's how the mini courses operate: During the first half of the semezter, pupils take some required portion of their to- tal high school English. In the second half they may choose and pick something in which they are interested or feel that they would enjoy. Such options as vocabulary, religi cus literature: English and Penna. Dutch, drama and oth.- ers are examples of what may be available, Students may enroll in classes of their choice on a “first-come-first-served’” basis until a class is full If he is too late, the pupil must make a second choice, The system has been ex- plained to the pupils, Princi- pal Donald Drenner said this week but the “day of truth”, when decisions must be made, need to at Donegal is fast approaching. The program, Drenner said, is difficult to organize and will be demanding upon the teachers in various ways. Some new texts will be need- ed. But, “we feel that the problems will be worth the trouble if the students will pat out equal efforts on their part,” the principal added. The plan is experimental in DHS. but is not a new idea. Other schools are us'ng the system and there have been beginning probes into the possibilities of doing the same kind of scheduling for social studies and for science, English teachers in high school who instruct boys and grils in the sophomore. junior and seniors classes are involv- ed. Miss Catharine Zeller is chairman of the department. Some teachers from Done- gal have visited other schools which already have been op- erating this or similar pro grams. A non.graded English (Turn to page 16) from the oid barn on the vo- tech school grounds, formerly owned by the Joseph Brene- mans. The barn has been in stages of demolition for sev- eral months but in recent days considerable “clean-up” work has been in progress. Pinkerton road, although closed since the flood, has not been seriously damaged ex- cept at the bridge and the approaches. In fact, some of the repair materials nesded have been hauled intc the site by approaching from the Newtown side. Although workers were ma- king a search for the “deate.. stone which is 1883—ihere appeared to be reasonable in- formation that the white mar- ble stone already has been picked up as a “flood souven- ir. It was reported to work men that someone was taking the stone shortly after the high waters washed the rail ings away. However: it was suggested that the souvenir hunters might be glad tc re turn the stone, now that de- cision has been made to re- store the bridge to its original state. SUNSHINE BOX Ladies of the Auxiliary of the Friendship Fire Company are making a Sunshi¢: Box for Mrs. Phyllis Leatherman, who is a patient in the Uni- versity hospital, Philadeichia. Members are being asked to take articles to the Auxiliary meeting on Thursday, Aug- ust 17.» LEISURE CLUB The Mount Joy Leisure club meeting will be held Monday, Aug. 14. Included will be a corn roast at Sportsmans Farm. ABo, a bus trip is planned for Aug. 16, to iour Lancaster county. The third and final Vesper Service to be presented this summer by the Mount Joy In- ter Church Council will be held on Sunday evening, Au- gust 13th at 7 o’clock. The program will be pre- sented in Memorial Park by the youth group of St. Mark's United Methodist church and will be a musical play entitl- Xo ed “It’s All About Love”, The youth group pericrm- ed this play for its own con- gregation earlier this year. The performance is direet- ed by Mrs. Jack 'Rourke and Rev. W. Richard Kohler. In case of inclement weath- er, the service will be held at St. Mark's United Methodist church.
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