THE
MOUNT
JOY
Halph M.Snyder
R. D. &
Mount Joy,
ULLETIN
P20.
MOUNT JOY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER
VOL. 73 NO. 11
Just 10 years ago, we were
reminded a few days ago as we
were looking through an old issue
of the Bulletin, the community
was beginning to adjust to the
fact that Florin and Mount Joy
are one town.
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The annexation of 515 acres of
land was completed by Judge
Joseph B. Wissler as of Feb. 1,
1963. There was a ‘‘waiting
period’ of some 45 days during
which other objections or legal
action could have been taken.
But, at that point there was none.
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That same year, Florin began
having door-to-door mail
delivery.
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A few years ago we did a very
unscientific but revealing study
of that problem, simply by
reading and counting, each day in
the daily paper, the number of
deaths and births. The greatly
larger number of births was
almost frightening as we con-
tinued the tabulation over a
lengthy period of time.
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But, recently, we have been
noticing, but not keeping a
record, and find that frequently
the daily paper shows more
DEATHS than births.
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Be advised that the present
energy crisis is only the begin-
ning of other shortages, yet to
come.
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Some may be a few years
ahead, but rather soon you will be
hearing about such things as
lead, zinc, aluminum, mercury,
asbestos and nickel, just to
mention a few. Then there are
others, some less well known,
which will have an influence upon
the American style of life —
uranium, manganese, tungsten,
barite and titanium, not to
mention a homely item like high
grade clay.
MOUNT JOY, PA. 17552 - AUGUST 9, 1973
TWO MODULAR CLASS ROOMS, purchased recently by Donegal School District, have arrived
and are being installed in the rear of Donegal high school in the L formed by the main classroom
portion of the building and the shop and home economics wing. Shown here, the two buildings,
arriving in four sections on removable wheels, are being set up on the edge of the macadam parking
lot at the end of a concrete sidewalk leading northward from the building. Moved over the highways
as trailers, the buildings have been used previously as class rooms. Their use is limited to five years
in any one location.
Benefit Raises $710
For Ray ‘Dick’ Bell
A total of $710 was raised
Saturday, Aug. 4, by the Mount
Joy Athletic association in a
benefit effort for Ray ‘Dick’
Bell, 121 Columbia, local kidney
patient.
Of that amount, $400 will be
used to purchase a ‘‘stand by”
generator to operate Bell's
kidney machine in case of a
power failure during one of his
six-hour stints with his equip-
ment.
The remainder will be placed in a
trust fund to help meet monthly
payments for rental of the
machine.
Complete Testing Of Water Well;
Hopes For Success Looks Good
Although official figures are
not and probably will not be
available for several weeks, the
indications this week are that the
Mount Joy Borough Authority
has brought in a satisfactory
water well.
The well, located west of the
borough in the Abner Wolgemuth
development along Donegal
Springs road, was under 48-hour
pumping test a week ago, and on-
site indications are that both
volume and quality of water is in
line with needs of the authority.
‘0b This and That’
by the editor’s wife
We became acquainted this
week with two of America’s most
popular ‘“RV’s” (recreational
vehicles)--motor homes, and
bicycles!
As for the first-mentioned, we
merely dropped by a dealer’s lot
to see what they were like.
Having been among the earliest
families to have a travel trailer,
we wanted to see what these new
‘““creations’”’ were that are fast
becoming definite competitors to
the trailer industry.
They were gorgeous, luxurious
beyond description. Upholstered
swivel seats for the driver and his
‘“‘co-navigator,”’ were only the
beginning. There was deep-piled
carpet in rich tones, there was a
refrigerator-freezer, a stove with
eye-level oven, a complete
bathroom, lots of storage space,
two or three air conditioners, a
dinette that converted to a bed, a
twin-bed bedroom, and all
manner of ‘‘gidgets and gadgets’
to make traveling a pleasure,
They were very appealing!
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HORSE AND BUGGY BRIDGES IN MODERN MOTOR AGE
Railroad, State, Boro Place Limits On Bridges
Engineers now are studying the
drilling results and chemists are
making tests of the water for
clarity, are analysing for content
and studying to determine what
treatments are needed.
An official report is not ex-
pected until early in September,
Borough Manager George Ulrich
said Monday.
Although equipment used for
the test pumping has been
removed from the well site, the
drilling rig remains this week.
A satisfactory well climaxes a
long hunt for an additional water
source for the borough, including
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TEN CENTS
MEALS ON WHEELS
New Service
For Shut-Ins
By Sept.
Meals on Wheels, a service to
provide meals for shut-ins, is
planned for Mount Joy, beginning
early in Spetember.
The plan, according to Mrs.
Gilbert Hamilton, is to provide
one hot and one cold meal per
day, five days a week, to those
who:
1. are temporarily or per-
manently handicapped, 2. - the
elderly, and 3. those who are
convalescing from an illness.
The program is being handled
by volunteers from Mount Joy
churches. Food will be prepared
in the Kkicthen of the Schock
Presbyterian home and
dispatched ‘rom the St. Mark’s
church.
There will be a charge for the
service, but there will be aid
available to help serve those
whose financial status prevents
them from paying full cost.
Meals will be delivered, Mrs.
Hamilton, spokesman for the
organizing group said, between
11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Mon-
days through Fridays. No
deliveries are to be made on
Saturdays or Sundays.
Volunteers for manning the
program are needed, Mrs.
Hamilton said. Both men and
women to serve about 1!: hours
per day as packers, drivers or
visitors as regulars and as
substitutes are needed.
Additional information may be
had by calling 653-2058.
Music IN THE PARK
“McCoy and the Hatfields” will be at Memorial
Park on Saturday evening, August 11, for a Music
in the Park program, beginning at 7 p.m.
The band is made up of approximately 16 junior
and senior students from Donegal high school,
under the direction of Ken McCoy.
A saxophone quartet and the Saxatonals also will
perform.
Rain date will be August 18.
Music is sponsored by the Mount Joy Community
Council.
Mount Joy’s principal problem,
as relates to the ‘‘railroad
bridges’’, is that this is no longer a
“horse and buggy’ world!
At approximately the turn of the
century - or a little before - when
the Pennsyvlania railroad dug the
big cut through the center of
Mount Joy and divided it as neatly
and as cleanly as a meat cleaver
cutting pork chops - all traffic was
light.
A heavily-loaded wagon was the
biggest load the bridges were
required to carry.
But, in the intervening years,
things have changed.
Traffic is different,
requirements are different, needs
are different. But the railroad
bridges remain essentially the
same. A few have been given
special attention but even the
Marietta avenue corssing, which
was rebuilt rather recently, is
now posted at a 13-ton load limit.
Through the years, the railroad
has maintained the .bridges or
paid the borough for doing the job,
all of which is part, apparently,
with the original agreement
between the railroad and Mount
Joy.
However, within the past
months, the rail company has
fallen upon financially difficult
times. Under control of the courts
to guide its operations, the now
Penn Central is bankrupt and
there appears to be no money for
Underscoring the railroad bridge
situation in Mount Joy, the Com- _
monwealth’s PennDOT this week has
erected ‘detour’ signs, notifying traffic of
load limits and directing drivers off the
Marietta avenue and New Haven streets.
The official signs are pedestal type located
on Main Street.
repairs or maintenance of the
crossings.
Because they are not being
given maintenance, the safety of
the bridges is in question.
The rail company has posted
limits of four tons at the Lumber
and Market street crossings.
And, PennDOT, the Penn-
sylvania Department of Tran-
sportation, additionally has
placed limits of 13 and 8 tons at
Marietta and New Haven, where
state highways cross the big rail
cut.
Other bridges - at Comfort
alley, Barbara and Jacob are
unposted, but the borough itself
has an uneasy feeling until it can
learn more details from
engineers. Thus, these bridges
are under self-imposed restric-
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