a
"THE
R. D. 3
fpaipin ¥.Snyder
Mount Joy, Pa.
wr BULLETIN
MOUNT JOY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER
MOUNT JOY BULLETIN
OCTOBER 3, 1973
VOL. 73 NO. 19
TEN CENTS
Two Churches Plan Joint Meeting Series
Two Mount Joy Churches will be joining
together for eight nights of meetings, from
October 7 through the 14th, as a participation of
Phase Five of Key 73, ‘Calling Our Continent to
the Proclamation.”
The Mount Joy Church of God and St. Mark's
United Methodist Church will have as their
evangelist the Rev. David Barr of Annville, a
Billy Graham Associate.
The overall of the evangelistic effort is, “To
Know Him.”’
Services will be held in the sanctuary of St.
Mark’s Church. They will begin each evening at
7:30 o'clock with a song service under the
direction of St. Mark’s Pastor, the Rev. W.
Richard Kohler. A combined choir will sing each
evening. Direction of Mrs. George Broske and
Gerald Miller, organists of the respective
churches, who will share the responsibilities. An
informal prayer time with the evangelist will
precede each evening service at 7 p.m.
Both congregations have been preparing for
these meetings by holding joint prayer and share
groups. A women’s prayer group has been
meeting on Tuesday mornings, and Wednesday
evening meetings for the entire church have
been held in the Church of God. A 24-hour prayer
vigil will be held in the Church of God sanctuary
from 8 a.m. on Oct. 5th to 8 a.m. on Oct. 6th.
Members of both congregations are signing up
: for fifteen minute or half hour segments of time.
meeting.
community.
Visiting laymen have been exchanging
greetings among the chuches to invite full
participation. There will be a ‘‘hoagie hassle”
for the youth of ‘both churches on Saturday
evening followed by attendance at the evening
The evangelistic services, though sponsored
by the two churches, are open to the entire
COUNCIL BOOSTS POLICE DEPT.
Buy Equipment To Join County Net
Mount Joy’s police department, its operation and equipment were
principal subjects Monday night, Sept. 24, as Borough Council held a
special meeting in the borough building.
As of January 1, 1974, the borough will discontinue its local police
telephone answering service.
In place of the services of Mr.
and Mrs. Steve E. Leatherman,
the local police system will be
tied into the county dispatching
service, based in Lancaster.
When the switch is made, local
telephone numbers will be
connected directly with the
Lancaster office, which will be in
radio contact with the police in
Mount Joy.
To accomplish the change over,
Council last week ordered the
purchase of a new mobile radio
set for the police cruiser, a new
walkie-talkie set and other
miscellaneous equipment, all of
which is designed and built to
Indians Take Second League
Defeat As Elco Grabs Victory
Donegal managed two touch-
downs -- in the first and fourth
periods -- but Elco pushed across
three Saturday afternoon and the
Raiders took the victory, 19-12.
It was defeat number two for
the Indians in the Lancaster -
Lebanon league and dropped the
season’s mark to 50-50 with two
early non-loop victories.
Played on the Elco field, the
game pushed the Indians into a
tie for the bottom place in the
league standings, tied with
Garden Sport.
Grove carried over the Indians’
first TD late in the first on a one-
yard lunge. A kick for extra point
failed.
The Raiders countered as the
first half faded, and Sweigert
plunged one yeard into the end
zone. But, the kick was good, and
the hosts lead, 7-6.
Again in the third, it was
Sweigert who carried the ball into
pay country, clipping off a 19
yard run. A kick was un-
successful. ”
Grandview Parents
Teachers To Meet
Parents «and teachers of
Grandview Elementary school
will hold their first meeting of the”
new school year on Thursday,
Oct. 4.
The organization -- PTG -- will
open the evening with class room
visitations, beginning at 7 p.m.
and will be followed by a
program in the all-purpose room.
Glenn Eshelman will show his
slide presentation, ‘‘Almost
Paradise’. Light refreshements
will be served.
The Raiders assured their
victory, with margin, in the
fourth with another touchdown
but without conversion.
As the game was closing,
Grove ripped off a 57-yard touch-
down run. A pass PAT try failed.
This week the Indians are on
home ground Homecoming game
against Cocalico. The Eagles
have stopped Ephrata (20-6) and
Solanco (34-32) and were taken
by Manheim Central (21-13) and
on Saturday by Penn Manor, 19-7.
Mowrey, Pannebecker and
Strunk are the names to watch.
Officer John Grebill
Resigns From Police
Patrolmen John Grebill of the
Mount Joy police department,
has submitted his resignation
from the force, effective
Tuesday, Sept. 18.
In a letter of resignation, ad-
dressed to Chief J. Bruce Kline
and accepted Monday night,
Sept. 24, Grebill gave ‘personal
reasons’’ for leaving the
department.
Mount Joy has a normal force
of four men. However, the
borough currently is seeking to
employ, as of January 1, a fifth
officer.
Grebill, who had been with the
local police force for ap-
proximately 40 months, told the
Bulletin that he plans to take a
non-uniform investigative job.
ON E ‘TOWN’ VARSITY
Betsy Hallgren, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. H.F. Hallgren,
north Market street, is a member
of the Elizabethtown college
varsity field "hockey team.
connect into the county radio net.
Other communities in this area
which are involved include
Manheim township, Manheim
borough, Millersville, East
Hempfield township, West
Hempfield township and East
Petersburg. Elizabethtown and
Mount Joy township are reported
to be considering seriously
joining the electronic grid.
Fire companies in the local
area already have discontinued
use of the telephone center
operated by the Leathermans.
Fire Zone 7’s base station,
operated at the home of John
Henry Lutz on Donegal Springs
road, handles communications
traffic for the firemen.
The new police radio equip-
ment wil cost $2,325, to be taken
from the borough’s federal
revenue sharing funds.
Council last week, also from
federal revenue sharing, pur-
chased ‘‘Breathalizer’’ equip-
ment to measure the degree of
drunkenness suspected
inebriants may be suffering.
Police officers are to be trained
in the use of the equipment.
Formerly, state police of
Columbia police have beeen
called into give assistance which
such equipment was needed.
Police also are to have an
emergency recusicitation unit for
use at accident scenes,
disposable heat and cold
blankets, a new fire extinguisher
and a mini powered rescue jack
and pry-axe for use at accident
scenes when there is personnel
trapped inside vehicles.
The serveral police items
totaled about $1,500, all pur-
chased by federally supplied
money.
Fire Prevention
Week Observed ;
In observance of National Fire
Prevention Week, Oct. 6-13, the °
Mount Joy Bulletin this week is
carrying a full page ad-
vertisement citing the need for
concern in this area and listing a
few rules for the prevention of
home, farm, industrial and forest
fires.
Sponsors of this page include
- 0.K. Snyder, the Donegal Mutual
Insurance Co., the Ray N. Wiley
Agency, Inc., the B. Titus Rutt
Agency, Inc., Florin Fire
Company, Inc., and Friendship
Fire Company no. 1.
Private Enterprise Assumes
Old Paper Collection Job
BUNDLES MAY BE TAKEN TO SAME LOCATION
A thorny situation in Mount Joy
has been averted!
The household problem of
“what to do with old newspapers
and magazines’’ has been solved.
Harrison Koser of Rheems has
taken over the collection system
which has been operated for the
past nine years by the
Ambulance committee of the
Friendship Fire company.
Koser, who is an employee of
Litho Craft, has purchased the
committee’s three pieces of
equipment — step-van truck,
semi-trailer tractor and semi-
trailer — and will continue to
accept recyclable paper for the
Eden paper company.
Collection will continue as in
the past with the trucks parked
on the north side of the St. Mark’s
church parking lot.
People with buntlled papers
and magazines may drop them
off there. »
Because of dwindling personnel
available to help with the project,
the ambulance committee had
considered closing the trucks,
selling them and abandoning the
program.
The committee ended its
participation on Friday of last
week, taking a final load of paper
to Eden.
Christ Charles, chairman of the
ambulance committee’s paper
project, said this week that the
cooperation and help of the
general public is greatly ap-
preciated and that the income
over the years has helped make
possible a service to the com-
munity.
Harvey Stoner is the only other
person who has headed the
committee during the nine years
the ambulance committee
conducted the paper collection
project.
Homecoming Saturday At DHS
Donegal high school will ob-
serve homecoming Saturday,
Oct. 6. Festivities will center
around the football game with
Cocalico at 2 p.m.
Selected by the football and
soccer players from six
nominees, the homecoming
queen will be crowned at half-
time by Miss Bonnie Arnold, 1972
queen. The queen and her at-
tendants, wearing long gingham
gowns, will ride in horsedrawn
buggies. Senior boys will serve as
escorts for the queen and her
court.
For the annual event, - the
Donegal high school band has
prepared special formations.
Also between halves, a group of
parachuters will present a sky-
diving exhibition.
Members of the Class of 1955
will be guests of the Varsity Club
at the game. A special section in
the stands will be reserved for
them. In their honor,
cheerleaders will wear 1955
uniforms.
To kick off the day, the varsity
soccer team will play an alumni
team at 10 a.m.
Firemen Join In Observance
Of Nat'l Fire Prevention Week
Fire Prevention Week, October
7 - 13, has as its theme this year
‘“‘Help Stop Fire!’ Emphasis in
the community campaign is that
fighting fires is the job of each
and every citizen, during Fire
Prevention Week and at all other
times throughqut the year.
Nearly a thousand persons lose
their lives from fire in the United
States each month. Fire costs the
nation’s economy close to $3
billion annually. The tragedy of
these statistics, Chief Frank
Good Jr. of Friendship Fire Co.
No. 1, points out, is that much of
this waste of lives and property
can be avoided.
It would make a vast difference
if the basic rules of fire safety
were observed at home and on
the job, all year round, he notes.
The observance of Fire ~
Prevention Week will be spon-
sored by Friendship Fire Co. No.
1, Mount Joy, on Saturday, Oct.
13, with an open house held from
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The open house will feature fire
company momentos on display,
an equipment display, gifts for
adults and children, free refresh-
ments and four fire prevention
films.
Chief Good and all local fire
fighters invite all citizens to take
this opportunity to stop in for a
. visit. Firemen will be on hand to
answer questions and to show the
public the equipment in service
for the community.
FIRST MISS IN YEARS
For the first time in many
years, there will be no
Halloween parade in Mount
Joy this fall!
Traditionally, the Lions club
has sponsored the event with
many ig the community
helping with financial con-
tributions. The evening's
program included a parade,
No Halloween Parade Planned
cash prizes, judging and
entertainment.
However, a spokesman for
the club said this week that
planning was begun too late
and finally it was decided to
skip the parade this year.
However, a- free movie “for
the kids’’ is being-eonsidered.
SAA IRR