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BULLETIN
MOUNT JOY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER
MOUNT JOY BULLETIN
SEPTEMBER 19, 1973
VOL. 73 NO. 17
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BATTLE OF THE BRIDGES
Action Soon
The Mount Joy ‘battle of the bridges’ is
beginning to show its shape!
Several months ago the Bulletin warned that
one of the gravest problems the community has
faced would be developing within the near
Now, it appears, the time is almost at hand.
In fact, the Mount Joy Borough Council is
ready and, actually, eager to be on with the
business of deciding the fate of seven bridges
across the Penn Central railroad tracks.
For one reason or another, the community has
only one unlimited load crossing - Angle street.
All others have varying restrictions which
inhibit trucks, school buses, fire trucks and other
traffic. In effect, the load limits dividing the
town into ‘north’ and ‘‘south’ sections.
The matter now is to be aired at a hearing
which will involve the Borough, PennDOT, the
Commonwealth’s Public Utilities Commission
and the Penn Central railroad.
However, there appears to be some kind of
continuing delay in Harrisburg about the setting
Mount Joy Borough is ready with its evidence
to ask that all bridges across the railroad be
brought up to present-day safety standards and
that all be kept open for vehicular and pedestrian
Special legal counsel has been employed by the
borough to present the case. He is John P.
Kershner of Lancaster, who has had outstanding
success in the presentation and argument of
bridge cases before the PUC.
In the meantime, the Mount Joy Chamber of
Commerce is beginning to muster an effort of
community participation.
Expressions of concern and of citizen opinions
Representative Kenneth Brandt and Senator
Clarence Manbeck are both interested in the
Mount Joy situation and expressions and
opinions are to be directed to them.
One of the problems the borough has en-
countered is that no date for a hearing has been
set. Council is eager to have a time and day set
as quickly as possible.
Farmers’ Coop Denies Agreement
With Ice Alley Closing Proposal
The Mount Joy Farmers co-op, one of the chief property owners
involved, does not, at the present time, favor the closing of Ice alley,
as petitioned a week ago by Lancaster Leaf Tobacco company.
Lewis Bixler, president of the
cooperative, said this week that,
with the knowledge that the
farmers organization now has in
hand, it objects to vacating the
east end of the alley.
At the September meeting of
the Mount Joy Borough Council,
held Monday, the 10th, a petition
was presented by the tobacco
company asking that the portion
of Ice alley between Old Market
street and Alley A be vacated.
Lancaster Leaf, according to a
representative at the council
meeting, would then use the area
as part of its rebuilding program
following its disasterous fire last
summer.
At,.that time, it -was said that
! the farmers cooperative joined in
the petition but has not yet
signed the papers.
Bixler, however, said that as of
Friday night, Sept. 14, when the
board held a meeting, it does
object and is not signed.
Sewer lines and electric lines,
Bixler said, which serve the co-op
are in the area under discussion.
About a year ago, he added,
when Lancaster Leaf first
proposed the vacation, an on-site
meeting between co-op and
tobacco plant people was held,
but “we only listened,” Bixler
said.
Donegal District Enrollment
Increases 17 Above Fall Of 72
Donegal school district
enrollment, as classes start this
fall, stands at 2,922 boys and
girls.
That figure is 53 above the
number registered when school
was dismissed in the spring for
summer vacation and is 17 above
the enrollment on October 11,
1972.
By buildings, €nrollment this
Commission Named
To Develop Park
An eight-man Park Com-
mission has been named by the
East Donegal township super-
visors to help develop a 28-acre
recreation area north of
Maytown.
They are:
Charles Johns, Herbert Shelly,
Francis Ferguson, John Winters
and Norman Houseal of
Maytown; James Myers,
Marietta R1; and Chester
Bowers, and Jack Garner, Mount
Joy R1.
fall, as compared with a year
ago, is as follows:
1973...... 1972
High School 904 869
Junior High 509 496
Grandview 378 379
Maytown 351 328
Riverview 408 433
Seiler 349 336
Washington 23 64
Totals 2922 2905
The comparable figure in 1971
was 2,931. Peak fall enrollment
by Donegal schools was in 1969 -
3,022.
94TH BIRTHDAY
Mrs. W.R. Heilig of this
community, who is a guest at the
Bailey Nursing Home in
Elizabethtown, will observe her
94th birthday on Saturday, Sept.
23.
Navy Aviation Electronics
Technician Third Class Rockney
E. Feeman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert E. Feeman of 176 S. River
St., Maytown, Pa., has completed
e advanced aviation electronics
course at Millington, Tenn.
MEET LAMPETER-STRASBURG SATURDAY
Indians Clip E'town For Second Win
Playing a deceptive style
of football which had
Elizabethtown’s Bears off
balance, Donegal’s Indians
Saturday night, Sept. 15, racked
up victory number two in the
fresh, new 1973 season.
By a score of 12-0, the Big
Green marked its second shutout
and stands one of only two teams
in Section II of the Lancaster -
Lebanon League which is un-
defeated.
Neither wins, however, are
over loop teams. But, they are
over clubs in the other half of the
LLL, which some fans are in-
clined to rank as the stronger
elevens in the area.
Postponed from Friday, which
was a ‘big rain” day in the
county, the game was played at
E’town under the lights the next
night as one of the two night
encounters of the season. The
other comes later - Friday, Nov. 2
- at Manheim Central.
Victory sets up the Indians for
their first league game of the
season on Saturday afternoon of
this week against Lampeter-
Strasburg. Kickoff time is 2 p.m.
on Donegal field.
Rightly nicknamed the
Pioneers, L-S is making its in-
titial probe into varsity football
this season and to date has been
nicked by Downington (28-12) and
Penn Manor (19-0).
Donegal Coach Gayne Deshler
is keeping in mind the fact that
Lampeter-Strasburg gave
Elizabethtown a mighty good
struggle in a practice scrimmage
prior to the opening of the official
season.
Suggest Lowering
Speed On E. Main
The possibility of lowering the
speed limit on Road 230 east of
the Little Chiques creek bridge to
the east Mount Joy line is to be
considered by the Mount Joy
Borough Council. :
Because of increased traffic,
added entrances and exits onto -
the highway from industrial
sites, homes, churches etc., a
move is afoot to seek making that
area a ‘no passing’ section with
speed limits possibly at 35 M.P.H.
Presently, the limit west of the
bridge is 35 miles per hour, but
for a portion of the distance east
of the bridge the posted speed is
40 M.P.H. Even farther, the limit
is 55.
Jeff Pierce appears to be the
*Pioneer to keep in sight Saturday
both as an offensive and defen-
sive threat.
Saturday night, Donegal’s
touchdowns were carried in by
end Jeff Galagher, who took the
ball on a pass, and by Ken Grove,
who scored on a rushing attempt.
One conversion attempt by
kicking was not good and the
second failed on a pass play for
two-pointers.
Donegal continued a strong
lefensive game, allowing the
HEAD HUNTER AWARD
Defense - Ed Mohr
Offense - No Award
Bears only three first downs and
illowing them inside the 50-yard
line only once. A strong pass
defense prevented a single,
Elizabethtown connection by the
air.
At the same time, Donegal
rushing yards went above 200 and
12 first downs were posted.
Grove carried 24 times and
went 106 yards. However, the
field condition was not par-
ticularly good for the fast, quick
Indian backs, particularly in the
tough last 20-yard area.
Donegal suffered no injuries.
Saturday’s game will send the
Indians for a try for a tie for their
longest winning string. Iu 1972 the
skein went to four. With a season-
closing victory last year added to
the two already this year,
Saturday could put the Deshler
lads in a highly satisfactory
victory frame of mind.
Section Il Standings
Ww L T
Cocalico 1 0 0
Ann.-Cleona 1 0 0
Penn Manor 1 0 0
Man. Central 0 0 1
Elco 0 0 1
Garden Spot 0 1 0
Saolanco 0 1 0
Lamp.-Stras. 0 1 0
Donegal 0 0 0
Maytown Bank Robbery Is Third
“13 ‘No Leads’ Holdup In Area
Local and state police this week
were continuing as best they
could the third 1973 ‘‘no leads”
bank robbery in the area
following a noon-time holdup
Friday, Sept. 14, of the Maytown
office of the Union National
Mount Joy Bank.
A mask bandit, flashing a small
gun, entered the West High street
bank at 12:30 p.m. and within a
matter of minutes left with
$11,831.
It was the first robbery of the
bank - a handsome, new brick
structure - but the second of the
Maytown bank. Friday, April 7,
1967, at 6 p.m. bandits held up the
bank’s former office, located just
a half block east. In that robbery,
Mount Joy's Oldest
Resident Dies At 102
Abram B. Bradley, Mount
Joy's oldest resident, died
Monday evening, Sept. 17, at the
United Zion Home, Lititz. He
observed his 102nd birthday
November 21, 1972.
Services were arranged for
Thursday at 10:30 a.m. from the
Pleasant View United Zion
church, Manheim R2.
Police Chief Marvin Fultz was
gunned down at point blank range
and cash taken was immediately
recovered.
The other two ‘no clues’ and
no arrests robberies were of the
Dauphin Deposit Trust company
in Mount Joy. The first-$3,800 -
was Thursday, March 8, and the
second -- $6,900-on Thursday,
April 26.
Friday of last week, a young
white man, wearing a green, two-
piece rain suit, herded four bank
employees into a corner, scooped
the cash into a brown paper bag
and fled ahead of police, who
responded to a silent alarm.
Two Student Teachers
At E. Stroudsburg
Two Mount Joy students at
East Stroudsburg -State college
are beginning a semester of
student teaching.
They are: Deborah Roberts,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James
W. Roberts, West Main street,
who will divide her time at
Clearview Elementary school
and PenArgyl high school, and
Debra Renee Hostetter, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. LeRoy
Hostetter, Bruce avenue.