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Hope tc Have
SICO Park Set
For '73 Season
By Memorial Day, 1973,
hopefully, SICO park will be
back in readiness for the sum-
mer picnic season!
That is the word this week
from those in charge of mak-
ing extensive repairs follow-
ing Hurricane Agnes.
Frank Eichler said this
week that much already has
been done and contracts have
been arranged to do remain-
ing work which will need
some heavy equipment.
The plan is to have the
park ready by Memorial Day,
or a little sooner, and for the
Mount Joy Borough office to
handie reservations. Last year
the borough was to handle the
bookings but the season was
hardly underway when the
flood hit and all use of the
park was cancelled for '72.
One pavilion which was
swept away has been rebuilt
and work has been done on
the tables which were washed
out of the area. Many were
recovered but as many as 20
or 25 have disappeared com-
pletely. That many more have
been considerably damaged
and most all are in need of
paint.
In the meantime, consider-
able amount of “fill” material
has been hauled into the park
for use filling holes which
were gouged into the dyke by
the swirling flood waters..
This material, plus a large
amount of silt and debris left
covering the ball diamond and
other low spots in the horse-
shoe-shape park will be scrap-
ed away and all will be used
to close dyke holes and to re-
inforce other spots which
were damaged.
One feature which will be
added to the drainage system
of the park proper is a new
pipe in one of the low areas
to provide added water outlet
and to serve as a partial saf-
ety valve in time of flood.
In the pond area, near Rte.
230, SICO expects to bring in
clay earth to repair that facil-
ity and, hopefully, to provide
another ice rink area next
winter,
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Permit Denied
Application by the Mt. Joy
Borough Authority to drill a
well along Union School road,
north of Donegal high school,
has been denied by East Don-
egal township.
The Authority, seeking a
new source of water for the
community, will now file a re-
quest for a variance with the
township Board of Zoning
Hearing,
Ralph M.Snyde
R, D- 3
Mount Joy, a
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Newspaper
VOL. 72. NO, 35
Cleanup Program
Aleng Creek
Is Completed
A $4,300 cleanup program
along Little Chiques creek has
been completed and approved,
George Ulrich, Mount Joy
borough manager, said this
week.
The project, designed to re-
turn the stream to normalcy
following the June flood of
1972, was supervised by the
borough but payment comes
from federal sources.
Trash, debris and other for-
eign matter in the bed and
along the immediate banks of
the stream within the borough
were involved.
Work was done under a
contract with Larry Enck of
Landisville.
King and Queen
Voting Begins
Voting is now underway for
the 1973 Sweetheart Baby
King and Queen. Pictures of
contestants have been placed
in the following businesses:
Union National Bank, Nation-
al Central Bank, Hostetter’s
Hardware, Hi-Lo Discount
Center, Martin's Apparel, and
Stehman’s IGA.
A canister bearing each con-
testant’s name has been placed
with the picture so that the
public cain vote for their fav-
orite candidate by a penny-a-
vote. All proceeds will be do-
nated by the Mount Joy Joy-
cee-ettes to the Donegal Den-
tal Clinic and the Northwest
Lancaster County Medical
Center.
VISITS HERE
Mrs. Jeffrey Warner (form-
erly Pat Heisey) was visiting
her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Martin M. Heisey over the
weekend.
Mrs. Warner's husband, a
former professor at F&M, is
a geologist specializing in Pet-
rology with N.A.S.A. in Hous-
ton, Texas.
On Dean's List
James R. Musser has ben
named to the Dean’s List at
Franklin and Marshall College
for the Fall semester. He is a
senior, majoring in English,
and the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jay C. Musser, 214 Marietta
Avenue.
$5,700 in Prizes
A total of $5,700 in prize
money will be distributed to
winners in categories of the
53rd annual Lancaster County
Firemen’s coavention parade,
to be held in Mount Joy on
Saiurday, June 2.
Details of the parade judg-
ing were revealed recently as
entry forms were issued for
marching units, antique fire
p-eces, bands, drum and bugle
corps, comic units, etc.
Maybe the largest parade
ever to march the streets of
Mount Joy, the afternoon at-
traction is expected to attract
many thousands of people and
to last maybe five hours.
Sponsored by Mount Joy's
two fire companies — Friend-
ship and Florin, which have
given a total of more than
131 years of service to the
community — the parade is
scheduled to step off at 2 p.m.
—rain or shine.
Local fire companies
not compete for prizes,
Firemen of the county will
meet earlier in the day for
the association's delegates’
meeting and officers and dele-
gates will have dinner at 12
o'clock, noon.
may
NEW ARRIVALS
Jay W. and Linda (Keys)
Hess, Mount Joy R2, a son,
Friday, Jan. 26, at home.
Charles W. and Joanne
(Branchill) Diaco, 13 Pajill Dr.
Marietta, a daughter, Satur-
day, Jan. 27, at the General
hospital.
Larry J. and Fern (Wolge-
muth) Coover, 114 Market
avenue, a daughter, Wednes-
day, Jan. 24, at St. Joseph's
hospital.
Fire Compan
Friendship Fire company =1
answered 70 calls during the
year 1972 and was in service
123 hours and 55 minutes, it
is revealed in a year-end re-
port released by Fire Chief
Frank Good.
One of the features of the
report shows that only $12,-
9G0 damage to property was
done in Mount Joy borough.
Property endangered was
$371,000, giving the company
credit for saving $358,100 in
Mount Joy, the report indi-
cates.
In addition, however, there
Named Ccunty
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Assn. President
Andrew F. Reymer, 228 E.
Main street, has been elected
president of the Lancaster
County Funeral Directors as-
sociation,
Associated with the Nissley
funeral home, Reymer has
been active in the affairs of
the association and particular-
ly active in community affairs
of Mount Joy.
A native of Pennsylvania,
Reymer is a graduate of the
Indiana College of Mortuary
Science, He was employed in
Indianapolis and in northern
Indiana prior to coming to
Mount Joy six years ago.
James B. Heilig, also of Mt.
Joy was named one of four
directors of the organization
for the year 1973.
Samuel Cope of Paradise,
manager of the Lancaster ter-
minal of Branch Trucking Co.
was the speaker Tuesday noon
at the weekly luncheon meet-
ing of the Mount Joy Rotary
club, held at Hostetters.
He was introduced by Dr.
Richard Bryson,
Gloria Longenecker will be
among those participating in
District Band Saturday at the
Manheim Township H. S.
Devoted to the Best Interests and Welfare of Mount Joy
MT. JOY, PA. 17552 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1973
TEN CENTS
y Reports
were losses totaling $55 650 in
the nearby townships. Proper-
ty endangered is listed at
$169,300 with a “property
item of $114,650.
Of the 70 calls, 40 were in
the borough and the remain-
der as follows: Manheim bor-
ough 1; Elizabethtown bor-
ough 2; Rapho township 23;
East Donegal township 3, and
Lebanon county 1.
House fires were cause for
14 calls and accidental faise
alarms accounted for 13.
There were seven grass fires
and seven cars afire, There
were two each for assists,
apartment houses, barns,
dumps and stand-bys for oth-
er fire companies. There were
three wash-downs, four for
rumping water, three industri-
al and one each for accidents,
garages, hog pen, tree, shed,
tobacco shed, store, utility
pole and horse stable.
Graduated
Elizabeth A nn Rainbolt,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard A. Rainbolt, Donegal
Springs Rd., received a Bach-
elor of Science degree in ele-
mentary education in exercis-
es Sunday afternoon, Jan. 28,
at Elizabethtown College. The
graduates and their parents
were guests of honor at a din-
ner in Myer Dining Hall and
received their diplomas at
that time.
Elizabeth has just finished
her practice teaching in first
grade at Londonderry school
in Lower Dauphin district.
While in college, Elizabeth
was a member of the Concert
Choir, directed by Prof. Har-
ry L. Simmers, for 3 years,
serving as secretary of the
group for one year. She also
represented the Education De-
partment on the Student Sen-
ate, helped for two years with
freshman orientation, served
on the Library and May Day
committees, and was a student
assistant in the Music Depart-
ment,
THEY LIKE THE TOWNSHIP AS IT IS
Hear Zoning Change Request to Allow Development
People of East Donegal
township — or at least those
who attended a public hear-
ing Wednesday night of last
week at the Maytown school
— like things the way they
are and want changes made
slowly.
That is the feeling which
was given as the Board of
Township Supervisors of the
township sat to hear state-
ments concerning a proposed
zoning variance to permit the
building of a housing complex
near Marietta.
A few more than 100 peo-
ple sat with the supervisors
for about two hours in a com-
Emergency Medical
Calls
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
AND
SUNDAY
Dr. David Schlosse:
pletely orderly fashion. While
there was some emotionalism,
most statements and questions
were serious, factual seek-
ing.
Emotionalism — what there
was—seemed to stem from the
s:mple fact that the residents
of the township like their
way of life, their community
with its open spaces and rela-
tively low population density.
Typical of that point of
view came from a resident
who revealed that he works
in York, where ‘there are
dozens of developments”, but
he prefers to live in East Don-
egal and drive, even though it
costs him a total of more dol-
lars, he said. He likes the “life
style” of the area and seeks
to preserve it.
The fact that there are
“new faces” in the communi-
ty was mentioned. One per-
son stated that the reason
may be found in the fact that
people in the ‘Manheim
Townships” are seeking to
find a way out of situations
which, it was suggested, may
stem from highly populated
conditions.
But—-this point of view was
not unanimous and there was
an undercurrent which surfac-
ed and would be summarized
in the word ‘progress’.
Worries about schools, wa-
ter, sewer, open spaces, rents,
recreation and all the other
ramifications in an expanding
community were touched up-
on during the evening.
The hearing generated from
a proposal to give permission
for the building—over a peri-
od of five to 10 years—of a
589-unit development com-
plex north along Route 441,
near the new Riverview ele-
mentary school. An 84-acre
residential development, inclu-
ding town houses, garden
homes & mid-rise apartments,
would be located immediately
east of Ore Mine road.
This area would include not
only residences but a mnine-
hole golf course, swimming
pool, tennis courts and other
recreational facilities.
All facilties, however, it
was pointed out, would be for
use of the residents of the de-
velopment,
In addition, the proposal
~
calls for a shopping center, lo-
cated immediately west of
Ore Mine road. This complex
would include 10 acres and
would be located well back
from Route 441 with parking
in the rear. The developers
claim it would have a draw-
ing attraction from perhaps
12 to 15 thousand people liv-
ing in the area and would be
larger than a ‘‘convenience”
shopping center.
Developers claim that sta-
tistics from other similar pro-
jects of this kind indicate
about 159 school age children
would be living in the new
area, which would be called
Rivermoor. They add that
currently, Donegal school dis-
trict is losing school popula-
tion at a rate in excess of the
rate of increase the develop-
ment would generate over the
five to 10 years of its build-
ing.
The developers also said
that their economic studies
show that the complex would
generate taxes considerably in
excess of the costs it would
add to the local school and
taxing units,
at Marietta
The only added services,
they say which would be plac-
ed upon the local government
would be for police. Other fa-
cilities — water, sewer, fire
school, etc. — would be self
supporting. All construction, in-
cluding roads, and mainten-
ance would be by the devel-
oper, it was stated.
Last week's meeiing was
conducted in the gymnasium
of the school with John Hart,
East Donegal township officer,
acting as moderator and Sup-
ervisor Lloyd Fuhrman acting
as spokesman for the super-
visors.
A large map of the area un-
der consideration was display-
ed and explained.
Supervisors, acting as zon-
ing officials, have 30 days
from last Wednesday to make
a decision concerning the
granting of a variance {rom
the present zoning laws to al-
low the development to hegin.
There were questions raised
about “other” developmeriis
and housing areas within the
township—inciuding trailers—
but no specific information
was uncovered.