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SCHOOL BOARD NOTES
Take Track Bids
Bids for constructing a running track at Donegal high school were
scheduled to have been opened Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 25, for a
special meeting of the Board of Education.
Buchart Associates, who have been ordered to prepare
specifications, have estimated the cost of construction at $42,170.
Items covered include: Metal curbing on the interior edge of the
track, $2,860; stone ballast, $4,255; gravel-cinder track surface 18 feet
wide (minimum PIAA regulations), $8,565; drainage, $3,000; seeding
of track only, $3,900; rough grading of track only, $2,000; other
seeding, $13,100; and other grading, $4,500.
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Cost of the land previously has been established at $16,875.
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Donegal high school band has been notified that it finished ninth
overall in the Niagara Falls, Canada, competition in May. There were
36 bands participating.
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The band will not participate this year in the Gimbels Parade on Thanksgiving
Day.
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The school district’s total market value (1972) has been set at
$57,820,200 with an assessed value of $12,814,950.
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Thirteen teachers in Donegal district were given permanent contracts after
satisfactorily completing two years of teaching. They are: Jay Breneman,
Victoria Etsweiler, Glenn Hess, Barry McFarland, Kathleen (Zimmerman)
Milovanovic, Rudolf Milovanovic, Vasilikie (Gekas) Pinkus, Frank Steller,
Linda Smeltz, Martha Sheaffer, Diane Rice, Theodore Rasmussen, Linda
(Mylin) Ross.
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Mrs. Zelah M. Bender, Grandview kindergarten teacher, has sub-
mitted her resignation for retirement purposes, to be effective at the
end of the 1973-74 school year.
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Donegal’s portion of the costs of operating Vo-Tech schools has been set at
$101,655.29. Against that amount, a state reimbursement of $31,326.67 will be
received, making the cost actually, $70,328.62. The district has between 90 and
100 students involved.
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Fifteen gifted students of Donegal district and four from Columbia
will participate in a special class series of one morning each week
through the remainder of the year. Parents will provide tran-
sportation to and from Riverview school. First unit of study will be
environmental education.
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Cost of producing a Type A lunch in Donegal school this year has been set at 67
cents each. Present luch prices are 40 cents for elementary school children, 45
for secondary and 55 for adults.
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Donegal high school will be subject of an Evaluation Visiting during
the week of Nov. 5. The visiting team of evaluators will be welcomed at
MOUNT JOY BULLETIN
SEPTEMBER 26, 1973
VOL. 73 NO. 18
TEN CENTS
GROWING BOROUGH PROBLEM
What About Old Papers,
Unless some individual or
organization decides to perform
the service as a way of making
money, Mount Joy community
faces a problem of how to dispose
of tons and tons of waste paper.
That, in a nut shell, is the
situation faced as the Friendship
Fire company’s Ambulance
Committee nears the end of its
“paper truck’ collection system.
For nearly 10 years, two trucks
have been spotted on the north
edge of the St. Mark’s United
Methodist church parking lot and
people of the community have
dropped off bundles of old
newspapers and magazines and
other recycleable paper.
But, because of a manpower
shortage and a growing
irresponsibility of people who use
the facility, the collection trucks -
- as far as the Ambulance com-
mittee is concerned -- are to be
closed at the:-end of September.
This past year, the committee
realized nearly $5,000 for its
cause through the sale to the
Eden paper company of paper for
receiving purposes.
However, with the closing of
the trucks and discontinuing of
a dinner on Tuesday evening, Nov. 6, in the DHS cafeteria.
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A ‘“next-to-low-bid” for public address equipment at Maytown
school was accepted from approximately $2,300.
Sewer Connection For Donegal
School Building Called ‘ify’
Mount Joy, Donegal School
District and East Donegal
township are in a three-way
decision-making situation which
may lead to the addition of an
important sewer line to the local
disposal system.
At Donegal high school there is
a serious disposal problem which
be faced with action within the
near future-either with an im-
proved on-site system or with a
connection to a public sewer
system.
In conference between all
parties involved, it has been
determined that there can be a
solution. However, as of this
week solving of the problems are
“ify.”
First, if the Mount Joy Borough
Council will change its policy to
allow sewer connections to
property outside the borough
limits.
Second, if someone besides the
borough Authority will pay for
building the necessary lines and
pumping station.
Third, if some municipality -
East Donegal Township or East
Donegal Township Sewer
Authority - will assume
responsibility for the project.
At a recent joint meeting of
interested parties, it was
determined that if other matters
can be worked out, the Mount Joy
sewer plant can accept and
handle the D.H.S. sewage (but
not Donegal Heights area).
Other conferences are to
follow, particularly between the
school district and East Donegal
township and-or E. Donegal
Sewer Authority.
It has been estimated that
Donegal high school sewer rental
fees would be about $1,040 per
year, when and if presently
discussed plans are finalized.
Borough To Try
For Second Well
A second well to provide ad-
ditional gallonage for the com-
munity’s growing water need is
to be drilled by the Borough
Authority, beginning shortly.
To be located northeast of a
well brought in this year, the new
effort is to be attempted several
hundred yards away, but still on
the land of Abner Wolgemuth.
Kohl Brothers of Harrsiburg,
who drilled the No. 1 well, will do
the work.
Authority Returped
$6,787 For Flood
Damages In 1972
Final audit of funds for repair
of ‘“Agnes’’ damage suffered by
the Mount Joy Borough Authority
shows that the local water and
sewer treasurery will receive
$6,787.42, Borough Manager
George Ulrich said last week.
Of that amount, $5,000 already
has been advanced. A check from
the Office of
Preparedness for
expected shortly.
Ulrich pointed out that damage
was considerably greater than
the $6,787 but with expertise and
energy, the local Borough
Authority employees, directed by
Baxter Wells, were able to
salvage, repair and replace
many switches, bearings, motors
and other equipment that in other
communities were completely
lost and replaced at great ex-
pense.
Emergency
$1,787.42 is
Attend Harrisburg
BPW Club Luncheon
The Pennsylvania Federation
of Business and professional
Women’s Clubs held its annual
luncheon honoring women in
government on Saturday, Sept.
22, at the Host Inn, Harrisburg.
Attending from the Mount Joy
club were Mrs. Gerald Sheetz,
president, and Mrs. John Fry,
first vice-president.
Mrs. W. Antoinette Ford of
Washington, native of
Philadelphia, was the speaker.
Recently she .was appointed by
President Nixon to serve as a
member of the Washington, D.C.,
City Council.
Sepiors Pick Officers
Officers for the Donegal high
school class of 1974 have been
elected.
They are Rick Hilt, president;
Phil Hollinger, vice-president;
Gloria Longenecker, secretary,
and Deb Kelly, treasurer.
the system, the immediate and
logical question is ‘“What do we
do with our paper?”
Mountians of old papers and
magazines, as well as certain
industrial waste paper, ac-
cumulate quickly throughout the
‘borough.
There are numerous
organizations within the borough
which are interested in the kind
of income which the recycling
system returns but problems of
manpower which face the
Ambulance committee also are
built in with other organizations.
Thus, as Borough Manager
George Ulrich explained,
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ultimately, if no one else takes
hold of the situation, the borough
must.
But, he pointed out that any
connection would be made
reluctantly.
Ulrich pointed out the
economics of the situation.
If residents of the community
place bundles of tied up papers on
the curb or in the alleys with their
regular trash, they are tossed
into the borough's big compactor
truck and hauled to the refuse
collection station in Lancaster.
But, that costs money. The
papers would increase weight
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Blame Indians’ Overconfidence
For First Defeat Of 73 - 16-0
Two tough breaks in the opening minutes of the ball game Saturday
afternoon, Sept. 22, and the Donegal Indians collapsed to a fired-up
team of Lampeter-Strasburg Pioneers, 16-0.
It was the first D. H. S. defeat of the young season and the first time
the Tribe had been scored upon.
First touchdown came wham bang on the opening kickoff series.
L-S kicked and Donegal
received, running back to the 25,
where there was a fumble. The
Pioneers recovered and scored
on a short string of plays and then
converted for two points.
On the kickoff, Donegal took
the ball, moved nicely but when
the chains were carried out onto
the field for measurement on
third down, the ball lacked only
inches.
The choice was to try for the
inches. But, the try was stopped
and the Indians lost the ball.
From there on, Donegal went
down hill all afternoon, and not
only lost but looked bad before a
home crowd that was not too
large.
Donegal racked. up only one
first down and made only 21
yards on the ground against a
big, hustling club which despite
its first year in varsity com-
petition looked very good.
As Donegal weakened, L-S*
continued to grow stronger and
finally ended the game with 310
yards on the ground.
Donegal Coach Gayne Deshler
called the defeat a case of over
SECTION 11 STANDINGS
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Ann. Cleona 200
Elco 101
Manheim C. 101
Lam.-Stras. 110
Cocalico 1140
Penn Manor "90
Donegal 010
Garden Spot 010
Solanco 020
confidence and pointed out that
L-S had learned some good
football lessons from
Downingtown in their season’s
opener.
This week the Indians hit the
road to Lebano:: ~ounty to tackle
the Elco Raider: who won from
Penn Manor Saturday, 28-6, after
dropping to Weiser, 7-3, and tying
with Central, 14-14.
In victory, Elco looked good
with its passing attack and
worked well on the ground.
Donegal Presbyterian Church
Calls Minister From Coraopolis
The grandson of a minister
who served in Donegal, Ireland,
has been elected to the pulpit of
Donegal Presbyterian Church.
The Rev. Robert Clinton
Murphy, grandson of the late
Rev. James Clinton of Ireland,
preached at the historic Donegal
Springs Sunday morning, Sept.
23. At a congregational meeting
immediately afterward, a
unanimous call was extended to
him to accept the pastorate.
The Rev. Herbert E. Moyer,
who has supplied the pulpit at
Doegal for nearly four years,
presided at the meeting. A
motion that he be designated
Pastor Emeritus also was passed
unanimously.
The Rev. Mr. Murphy’s call
was acted upon by Donegal
Presbytery at a special meeting
Monday at Highland Church in
Lancaster. Pittsburgh
Presbytery will act upon his
resignation as associate pastor of
y
Sharon Community Presbyterian
Church, Coraopolis, at its
November meeting. He excepts
to start his Donegal pastorate
Nov. 15.
The Rev. Mr. Murphy is a
native of Allentown. A graduate
of Drexel University and Prin-
ceton Theological Seminary, he
was ordained in the Donegal
Presbytery in 1967. He served two
years as minister of Christian
education at Derry Church in
Hershey. Called as assistant
pastor to the Corapolis church, he
is now associate pastor of a
congregation numbering 1,800.
He is married to the former
Rose Ann Swarr of Landisville, a
graduate of Hempfield high
school and Drexel University.
They have two children. Brian,:..
five, and Heidi, two. They are to
reside in the manse which stands
on glebe land granted to the
congregation by John, Thomas
and Richard Penn.
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