!
i
THE
MOUNT
JOY
VOL. 73 NO. 24
ULLETIN
MOUNT JOY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER
DONEGAL SCHOOL BOARD
Class Of '74 May Top 200
The Donegal high school class of 1973 will, it is estimated include about 200
boys and girls, making it the largest group ever graduated. Schoolmen are
fearful that the number of seniors may be too large for commencement exer-
cises in the auditorium. Problems and uncertainties of an outdoor com-
mencement do not appeal to some people. Possibility of renting another and
larger facility has been mentioned.
Donegal scheol district has received a bill for $800 for the installation of the
new scoreboard on the D.H.S. football field.
Basketball practice at Donegal high began November 1. Wrestling practice
will open Nov. 10.
Donegal band will participate in the annual Harrisburg Parade of Bands on
Saturday, Nov. 17.
To connect two portable class rooms located east of the high school building, a
walkway shelter is to be built by maintenance staff people. Material costs are
estimated at $500.
Living within Donegal School district are 89 non-public school children. There
are: 39 at Krayhill; 18 at Holy Trinity; 11 at Lancaster Mennonite high; 11 at St.
Peters; 5 at Lancaster Day; 5 at Lancaster Christian Day.
First report cards will be issued in all district building on November 8.
Veterans Day at school is November 11. By law, the day must be observed with
a special exercise of some kind. Because Nov. 11 -- formerly Armistice day -- is
on Sunday, Donegal schools will observe the day (and the law) on Friday, Nov. 9.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11
Fifteen Stops On Tour
Fifteen stops are included on the fourth annual ‘‘Candlelight Tour”,
sponsored by the Mount Joy Business and Professional Women’s club.
To be held Sunday, Nov. 11, the tour will include 11 homes, two
churches, art studio and the Northwest Lancaster County Medical
center. They will be open from 3 until 8 p.m.
Refreshments will be served by the BPW at the Cameron mansion.
Stops on the tour include homes of:
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Gehman, 223 E. Main; Schock Presbyterian
Home, 37 E. Main; Henry G. Carpenter, Delta, and Main; Mr. and
Mrs. James McNiff, 130 Delta; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Keller, 268
Marietta; Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Banks, Donegal Springs Road; Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Smith, 71 Harold Avenue; Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
Dillow, Donegal Springs Road; Cameron Mansion, Donegal Springs
Road; Mrs. Mary Sarver and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Witman, Donegal
Springs Road; Mr. and Mrs. Albert N. Griffith III, 163 New Haven;
And, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church;
New Haven street; Donegal Presbyterian church, Donegal Springs
Road; Phillips Art studio, Concord alley, and the medical center,
Colebrook road, north of Route 230.
Mrs. John Wittle and Mrs. Arthur Sprecher are co-chairmen of the
B.P.W. finance committee and are in charge of the Candlelight Tour.
Tickets may be purchased at any of the 15 tour locations.
'Ob This aud That’
by the editor’s wife
As we have said many times,
the “comings and goings’’ at the
Bulletin office are anything but
dull!
Friends stop in to chat, and
often in the course of the con-
versation, we learn something
very interesting. For instance:
Not long ago, just after Gerald
Ford was named by President
Nixon as his nominee for the
vacancy left by Vice President
Spiro Agnew’s resignation, John
K. Wittle, Wood Street, came into
the office. He happened to have a
letter in his pocket from Mr. Ford
himself!
It happened this way: Gerald
Ford had spoken, quite a while
ago, at a meeting someplace, and
he had said things of which Mr.
Wittle heartily approved. He
wrote to tell Mr. Ford so, and in
reply received a nice ‘‘thank
you’’ letter.
Who knows? Conceivably, that
autograph COULD some day be
the signature of the President of
the United States!
Another visitor, Paul Fitzkee,
East Donegal street, dropped off
a yellowed receipt he recently
found among his old papers.
It was dated ‘Oct. 3, 1932” and
was for a yezr’s subscription to
the Mount Joy Bulletin! Forty-
one years ago! It was signed by
“Jno. E. Schroll,” and initialed
by “P. S.” (probably Pearl
Schroll, who is now Mrs. Charles
Roth, Birchland Avenue!)
The amount for a year’s sub-
scription in those long-ago days
was only $1.50. But that was
during the heart of the Great
Depression, when even if one had
a -job, he might have been
working for $15 a week! (And
feeling lucky, even so!)
A rather frequent visitor
during the summer months is
Charles Heaps, Delta Street, who
comes in to bring a few of his
beautiful roses.
This week he brought one long-
stemmed, dark red rose-bud.
“This may be the last of the
season!’ he told us, knowing that
a long-delayed frost could come
at any time.
So it has a place of honor on the
front counter, and, as always, all
who drop in at The Bulletin may
share and enjoy it. :
We happen to know that The
Bulletin office isn’t the only place
where he shares his rose-
treasures. The women at the
Schock Presbyterian Home are
(Continued on Page 8)
MOUNT JOY, PENNA.
NOVEMBER 7, 1973
TEN CENTS
Evaluation Team
Visits Donegal
A 17-member team of
educators, including a chairman,
vice-chairman and experts in 14
areas of curriculum, this week is
evaluating Donegal high school.
Findings and official
evaluation reports of the com-
mittee are for use by the Middle
States Association for deter-
mining accreditation of D.H.S.
for academic purposes.
The committee is headed by
Dr. Donald E.
director of secondary education,
division of curriculum and in-
struction of the New Jersey
Department of Education. His
assistant chairman is Daniel A.
Casciano, secondary principal of
Daniel Boone high school.
The team of educators was
honored Tuesday evening with a
buffet dinner in the high school
cafeteria, attended by faculty
members, school administrators
and guests. Superintendent R.F.
Hallgren and School Board J.
Edw. Charles welcomed the
evaluating team. Dr. Beineman
responded, pointing out that
while the official report is im-
(Continued on Page 2)
Beineman, -
MAYOR-ELECT JAMES A. GINGRICH, (left) and Mrs. Gingrich
smile happily as they consider the results of Tuesday’s municipal
election. The youngest head of local government the borough ever has
had, Gingrich is an electrical salesman. Mrs. Gingrich, the former
Sandy Kretzing, has been active in community affairs. Two little girls
complete the family.
YOUNGEST MAYOR IN HISTORY
OF BOROUGH ELECTED TUESDAY
James A. Gingrich Defeats Josephine Ellis
The youngest candidate for mayor in Mount Joy’s history has won over the
community’s first woman candidate for that office.
Tuesday, Nov. 6, in the municipal election, Republican James A. Gingrich
defeated Democrat Josephine Ellis, 606 to 349.
Mount Joy Candidate Loses County Race
Although he ran well in Mount
Joy and in his home precinct of
Springville, Charles O. Groff,
local certified public accountant,
Democratic candidate for county
comptroller, was snowed under
by the bulging Republican vote.
Herbert G. Mearig of Lancaster
was the winner by nearly 2 to 1.
He led the Democrat ticket in
Mount Joy, out drawing even the
Democratic candidate for mayor,
by 72 votes. In his home precinct,
he was a winner, 64-50.
Two New Men Named To Borough Council
Two new borough councilmen
were elected Tuesday by Mount
Joy voters. One was unopposed
and the other was one of two high
man in a three-candidate race in
the Florin Ward.
Winning unopposed was Ronald
E. Hawthorne (a new coun-
cilman) and Simeon A. Horton in
the West Ward and George D.
Groff in the East Ward.
In Florin Ward, Ammon L.
Smith, an incumbant, was given
204 votes; James R. Heisey, a
newcomer to politics, 193, and
Wilbur B. Charles, the only
Democrat candidate for council,
71.
Three Donegal School Directors Re-elected
Donegal school district's three
incumbant directors - all
Republicans -- all were returned
to office, Tuesday. A fourth
nominee, a Democrat, was low
man in the four-candidate race
for the three seats.
Voting totaled:
Dr. Robert F. Eshleman, 1,819;
Dale M. Arnold, 1770; Dr.
Harold Fellenbaum, 1,279, and C.
Donald Waser, 774. Arnold and
Eshleman had cross filed on both
tickets for the six-year offices.
Report United Way Area Contributions
John M. Groff of Marietta,
Andrew F. Reymer of Mount Joy,
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin V.
Gainer of Mount Joy No. 1 and
Mrs. Hazel S. Crankshaw of
Maytown are all 1973 United Way
chairmen for the Forget-Me-Not
campaign.
This solicitation is within the
residential division, which in-
cludes contributions from the -
resident who gives from their
home and business owners and
employees.
The total contributed to date in
each area as reported by Groff in
Marietta, $614; by Reymer in
Mount Joy, $1,603; by Mr. and
Mrs. Gainer, In East Donegal
Twp. North; $472; and by Mrs.
Crankshaw in Maytown area,
$165.
However, the G.0.P. victory
this year was not by the same
margin as four years ago when
Republican Henry Zerphey won,
965 to 484, over Jack Matoney.
In 1969, the margin was almost
exactly 2 to 1. Tuesday, however,
the Democratic candidate
claimed 36 per cent of the total
votes cast for in the mayor’s
race.
Gingrich, age 29, is, as far as
anyone knows, the youngest
candidate to make the race for
mayor and thus becomes the
community’s youngest elected
head of government.
A salesman for Raub Supply
company of Lancaster, he has
been very active in Mount Joy
community affairs and in 1969
was named winner of the Jaycees
annually presented Distinguished
Service Award.
The mayor-elect, who will
assume office January 1, 1974, is
East Ward Republican chair-
man. He took up the Republican
mayoralty race against Mrs.
Ellis in August following the
resignation from nomination of
Albert Newlin.
Gingrich served as 1968 Mount
Joy Memorial Day parade
chairman, has been involved with
midget football, Friendship Fire
company, was president of the
Jaycees in 1969 and has served as
secretary of the borough’s health
department.
Voting in Mount Joy was light,
as expected because there was
little pre-election activity. In the
fall of ’69, 1449 people voted. Fall
of '71 there were 1256 and
Tuesday there were only 955.