By R.A. R. If you haven't noticed the Memorial park rose garden recently, you might like to take a minute to enjoy the different beauty it is showing this August. ® & o As well as roses, the circu- lariar plot in the center of the park displays marigolds, dus- ty millers, geraniums and oth- er flowers, all in full bloom ® 6 eo The park is one of the beau- ty spots and is worthy of the pride and care lavished upon it. ® o& o Here's something interest- ing. Douglas Kiker, one of NBC’s political reporters. for- merly was a press assistant to Sargent Shriver when the Kennedy clan member was a director of the Peace Corps. Q ® eo t is estimated that there are 25 million young voters in America who already are committed to the symbolic “rejection of the Establish- ment.” ® ee o If one thinks just one min- ute, he discoveres that he doesn’t know very many (maybe one, two or three of the new “18-year-old voters) intimately and sufficiently well to know exactly how he will vote in November — if, in fact, he does vote, even though he is registered. ® © oo And, if you do know a very few well enough to ac- curately predict, what do you discover? That most of them will vote about as their par- ents have voted? ® © o No, not all, of course. But those who study such things are beginning to wonder if thsi new section of the voting rublic is really going to car- ry the big weight that Senat- or McGovern claims. He has acted as if all 25 million are “in his pocket.” They are not! ® © e@ If it appears to local resi- dents who pass the site regul- (Turn to page 16) Mount Joy's ONLY VOL. 73. NO. 13 New Principal For Seiler School Named Woodrow H. Sites, of 902 Snyder Hill Road, Lititz, has been named ‘principal of the Seiler elementary school buil- ding. He will fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Charles Heaps, who has headed the faculty at that school since it was built nearly 15 years ago. Sites, a native of the Man- heim area, was named Thurs- day night, Aug. 17, as the Donegal School District Board of Education held its August meetng in the Riverview school building, The new principal is a gra- duate of Millersville State col- lcge and has received the ma- sters’ degree from Pennsyl- vania university. For the past four years he has been head teacher at the Sporting Hill school. Sites attended the Thursday evening school board meeting. He was one of 17 people named to staff positions by the board on the eve of the opening of the 1972.73 school year. However. as of Thurs- day night, the board had not come to terms with the Don- egal district teachers concern- ing salaries and contracts for the coming year. Negotiations have been underway for many weeks. In other important business the board gave its approval to the sale of the old Marietta elementary school building to the Marietta Jaycees at a price of $7,500. Purchasers plan to use the scructure as a community building, Sale, however, is subject to approval of the Court of Com- mon Pleas. The action was the solution of a legal tangle which devel- oped several weeks ago when the building first was offered (Turn to page 16) 3 ‘Of This and That’ An interesting visitor came into the Bulletin the other day. He was Jim Mountjoy of Warrenton, Va. Mr. Mountjoy, a tourist, had been to Hershey to, “see the sights” and made a spec- ial trip over here to see the town with the same name as his own! “For several years I had known there. was a town m Pennsylvania called ‘Mount Joy.” he told us. “Then when I saw on our map that it was not far from Hershey. I wanted to see it!” We asked him if there were other people in the Warrenton area with the name of Mount- joy. “Oh yes.” he said, "1 have a brother and two sons. We gave him a copy of The Bulletin, and told him of the ship “Mountjoy” for whom the town was named, and how this ship broke the siege of Londonderry in Ireland many years ago. This seemed to be new to him. He seemed sur- prised that our town was lo- cated in a rich. fertile valley rather than on top of a high hill. He, like so many others, thought the “Mount” was a mountain! * * * We notice this summer two rather interesting new devel opments in our community. by the editor's wife That is, they aren’t really new but the extent to which they have grown is quite new! The first one is the ascend- ancy of “family” bicycling! Husbands and wives, fathers, mothers and children are re- discovering the joys of bicycle riding, in sizeable numbers. It isn’t at all unusual to see a father and mother out riding, with a small seat be- hind one of the parents for a little child. Neither is it unusual to see a group of three or four bi- cycles spinning along, quite (Turn to page 16) Newspaper NEW COACHES -- NEW SEASON DHS Begins Football Drill A double barreled building effort is in full swing and mov:ng at high speed on the Donegal high school football fields this wek! Under the leadership of a new coach, a new kind of Indian ball team is being fashioned. At the same time. the new six-man football coaching staff is, for the first time, working together and is fashioning a hard-working crew that already has drawn high interest from 46 boys who are suited for practice. Drills opened Monday with Coach Gayne Deshler in charge and this week the schedule calis for three prac- tices daily, climaxed with a scrimmage Saturday morning at D. H. S. against Hempield. Slated for 9 a.m. the ses- sion is open to the public. Next week, Coach Deshler Chief Issues Warnings A warning — two pronged — was issued this week by Mount Joy’s police chief, J. Bruce Kline, aimed at two groups of people in the borough. One — bicycle riders; and two — persons under 18 years of age who are subject to the town’s curfew. Bicycles, he pointed out, are subject to the same traffic regulations as an automobile. Traffic lights, stop lights, etc. he said. Also, the borough code is very explicit about bicycle riding double, reflectors needed, well as license plates. lights needed, etc., as To both parents and children, he reminded this week that any person under 18 years of age is subject to the curfew law. The ordinance says that by 10 p.m. on week day nights and by 11 p.m. on Friday and Satur- day nights those under 18 shall be off the streets. “There’s going to be a warned, ‘crack down’ ”, ’ » the chief .. Back to School -- School bells will ringing! Students in the Manheim, Donegal and Hempfield dis- tricts, the area served by the Mount Joy Bulletin and the Red Rose Valley Farm and Home News, will start back to school on Wednesday, Sept. 6th. A total of 12,763 element- ary and high school pupils are expected in these three districts. This is an increase of 121 over the fall of 1971 figure. In the Manheim district, high school will begin at 8:25 a.m.; junior high at 8:15 a.m. Fairland and White Oak ele- mentary schools, 7:50; Elm Tree: Mastersonville and Sporting Hill elementary schools, 8 a.m.; and Burgard soon be ‘and Stiegel schools, 8:25 a.m. In the Donegal district, high school and Beahm junior high schools will begin at 8 a. m.; elementary schools at 8:30 a.m., including Seiler, Grand- view, Maytown and River- Hunting Safety School The Mount Joy Sportsmen’s association will spon: sor a one-day hunter safety program on Saturday, Au- gust 26, at 1 p.m. Registration is at the Mount Joy Sportsmen’s club. house and the program is free of charge and open to the public. The hunter safety course is under the supervision of the Pennsylvania Game Commission which reminds that all persons under 16 years of age must qualify to purchase their first completing this course. ee = hunting license by satisfactorily view buildings. In the Hempfield district, high school and Centerville junior high will begin at 7:55 a.m. elementary schools at 8:45 a.m.; and kindergarten, 8.50 a.m. In this week’s Mount Joy Bulletin and Farm & Home News is a special Back-to- School page, sponsored by Sloan’s Pharmacy, Gerberich- Payne Shoe Co., Zuch’s Pen- supreme Dairy Products, Mar- tin’s Apparel, Johnson's Bus Service, Inc., The Sico Com- pany, Ruhl’s Flowers, Garber Oil Company, Martin’s 5 & 10 Store, J. B. Hostetter & Sons Inc., Jack Horner and the Red Rose Dairy Bar, all of whom can supply many of your Back-to-School needs. PICNICS FOR CHAMPS On Friday evening Aug. 11, parents and coaches held a picnic to honor the Florin Jr. Midget baseball team. The outing was held at the Arthur Wenger farm and was attended by approximately 80 people. During the 1972 sea- son, Florin won the Maytown Jr. Midget tournament. was runner-up in Mount Joy's Jr. Midget tournament and came back to win their last league game and the Susquehanna league with a win over Mount Joy. Representing the Susquehan- na League in the New Era tournament, Florin lost a loosely-played game to Quar- ryville. For their winning season, Florin players and coaches each received a trophy from the Mount Joy Athletic Asso- ciation and patches from the Susquehanna League. # ball Devoted to the Best Interests and Welfare of Mount Joy MOUNT JOY, PA. 17552, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1872 TEN CENTS FRESHMAN NOTICE Donegal high school fresh- men who are inierested in playing football this season are invited to report for ac- tion—at once. Head Coach Gayne Desh- ler said this week that prac- tice will begin Monday but that boys interested should go to the high school at once, Already, 13 ninth gra- ders have signed up for the fall campaign. said, “we’ll go practice sessions” through the next two weeks, leading up to the opener at Columbia on Sept. 9. Assisting Deshler are Den- nis Swift and Dennis F. lezzi, who are designated as varsity assistants. Ninth grade coach- es are Eugene Shulman and Frank Stellar, who is the only to two-a-day man who has had previous Donegal experience. Warren “Whitey” Hayman is the veteran trainer of Don- egal teams. Donegal grid fans, Deshler revealed this week, will something they likely have not seen much of in this area. Attempting to pick a style which can utilize the material he believes to be available. the team will use a tight type offense formation with a dir ect snap from center to one of three men, But, who the carrier may be foliows the set of the play. It appears likely, at this point, that. Donegal may not be a throwing team this sea- son. But, whatever unfolding of the pre-season practices, en thusiasm is at a high peak and Deshler is very happy with the reception he has had.. “These are good kids.” he said Tuesday evening. ‘They are smart, eager and ready to go.” TO MED SCHOOL Theodore Fellenbaum, son of Dr. and M 5. Harold Fel- lenbaum, south Market street has been accepted inte the Northwestern University Med- ical school at Evanston, Il. Ted, a 1966 graduate of Donegal high school, received a degree in 1970 from Oberlin College, with a major in bio- logy. He is married to the for- mer Valetta Hiller of Custer, South Dakota, a graduais of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. At present they are living and working in Galion, Ohio. They will be moving to Chicago on Sept. 4, where they will live while Ted is in medical school. Classes will begin on Sept. 28. VOTERS MAY REGISTER Registration for voters will be held in Mount Joy on Wed nesday, Sept. 6 from 2 io 9 p.m. at the Borough Building, according to the annc ment made this week, nce- TO HEAR PROBLEMS R. Ronald Reedy, field rep- resentative for Congressman Edw'n D. Eshleman, wi!l sit at the Mount Joy post cfiice on Saturday, August 26 irom 11 a.m. to noon. Anyone having any prob lem involving the Federal government is invited to dis- cuss it with Reedy.
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