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VOL. 73 NO. 27
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MOUNT JOY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER
AT UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN
Rotary Fellowship Awarded
Waser To Study In Norway
Charles D. Waser, 126 West
Donegal street, has been
awarded a Graduate Fellowship
from the Rotary Foundation of
Rotary International for the 1974-
'75 academic year.
He plans to study
mathematical sociology at the
University of Bergen, Bergen,
Norway.
Waser, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.
Donald Waser, and a 1970 honor
graduate of Donegal high school,
obtained his degree in
mathematics at Elizabethtown
college, graduating in 1973.
He is one of a very few
academically outstanding
Donegal seniors who have been
granted the privilege of taking
CHARLES D. WASER
freshman work at Elizabethtown
college. He then completed
college in three years.
Acceptance of the Fellowship,
at this time, is provisional,
awaiting final aceptance at
Bergen university, and language
requirements.
In the meantime, Waser is
employed at the David Martin
store in Elizabethtown, where he
worked during his Elizabethtown
collegedays, andnext semester he
plans to take part-time Temple
university courses.
One of more than 700 young
men and women who recently
received educational awards
from the Rotary Foundation,
Waser was sponsored by the
Rotary club of Mount Joy. Dr.
David E. Schlosser is president of
the club. :
The Rotary Foundation was
created by Rotary International
to provide educational and
vocational study programs for
qualified young people in
countries other than their own.
Award recipients strive for
academic excellence while
serving as ambassadors of good
will “through contacts with
Rotary clubs and others in the
host country.
The Foundation award covers
costs of round-trip trans-
portation, tuition, meals,
lodging, intensive language
training, and educational travel
during the year abroad. Mitchell
Albert and Richard Heisey have
been other recent recipients of
Rotary Graduate Fellowships.
The Foundation is supported by
contributions from individual
Rotarians and Rotary clubs
throughout the world. Since 1947,
more than 5,900 young men and
women have pursued studies in a
new cultural environment.
PRINCIPALS ARE ABSENT
Delay Ice Alley Decision
Whether or not to close Ice
alley continues an unanswered
question!
Although action was expected
on Monday, Nov. 19, and borough
council held a special meeting for
that purpose, the matter was
tabled until Dec. 10. :
Two principal parties involved
in the proposed closing of the
‘alley did not appear at the
meeting and neither com-
municated with the council.
Lancaster Leaf Tobacco
company is asking for the use of
the land and the Mount Joy Co-op
is a party related to the proposal.
But, whether the farmers’
organization will join in a petition
to close the alley, will oppose the
closing or will take no stand at all
remains the principal unan-
swered question.
The matter of vacating the
thoroughfare has been before the
council of many months and the
feeling this week is that on
December 10 - the monthly
meeting - council will attempt to
finally resolve the matter.
At the Nov. 19th meeting,
council applied to the county for a
delay in accepting $2,000 of high-
way funds. A total of $4,300 was
available for 1973 but only $2,300
had been used.
The request is to accept the
remainder in its 1974 allocation.
WOMEN’S REPUBLICAN CLUB
The Women’s Republican Club
of Lancaster City and County will
hold its annual holiday tea on
Wednesday, Dec. 12, from 2 to 4
p.m. at the home of Mrs. William
Betts, Jr., 144 Wilson Drive,
Lancaster.
Nov. 30, at 6:30 o'clock.
Dec. 1, from 9 a.m. until 12.
Santa To Arrive Friday Night
Santa Claus is scheduled to arrive in Mount Joy Friday night,
Riding on a fire truck from Friendship Fire company, Saint
Nick will arrive from the North Pole and go directly to the
former Booth'’s store on East Main street, where the Mount Joy
Joycee-ettes have set up a Santa’s Workshop.
The shop will be open Friday from 4 to 9 p.m. and Saturday,
MOUNT JOY, PENNA.
NOVEMBER 28, 1973
TEN CENTS
FORESEE NO REAL ESTATE TAX HIKE
IN MOUNT JOY BORO'S '73 BUDGET
Mount Joy Borough's 1974
budget - the tax rate and the
expenditures - are in the making!
Although final passage of the
new budget ordinance, setting or
rates etc. is not expected until
late in December, borough
councilmen have held several
meetings in November, at-
tempting to forge an acceptable
financial pattern for '74.
Late last week, about the only
part of the total picture which
was certain was that no change in
real estate tax is planned.
However, the borough does
have other sources of income
which are set by ordinance.
Budget making includes cer-
tain steps - preparation, first
draft, official presentation, ac-
ceptance, a waiting period for
public; inspection and, finally,
official adoption.
The entire procedure must be
completed - by law - prior to the
end of December.
First draft - not a public
presentation - was to have been
ready on Thursday of last week.
Aboard Aircraft Carrier
Navy Data Systems Technician
Third Class Donald L. Colbert,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil J.
Colbert of 108 N. Market Ave.,
participated with- NATO’s
Atlantic fleet in an annual naval
exercise here named ‘‘Swift
Move.” More than 30 ships from
seven countries took part in the
maneuvers. He is serving on
board the attack aircraft carrier
USS John F. Kennedy.
A 1971 graduate of Donegal
high school, he joined the Navy in
July 1971.
Historical Group Elects Officers
And Names Committees For 74
the Mount Joy Historical
society held its meeting on
Monday, Nov. 19, at the home of
the president, Ben Rohrer, and
officers for the coming year were
elected. :
Mrs. Franklin Zink was named
president.
Other officers elected include:
Ethel Foley, vice-president; O0.K.
Senior Class To Give Play
Friday And Saturday Nights
The grim future of George
Orwell's “1984” is the setting for
Donegal high school’s senior
class play, to be given Friday and
Saturday evenings, Nov. 30 and
Dec. 1, in the high school
auditorium. :
Curtain time is 8 p.m.
Trapped in a web of govern-
mental regulations, which
control thought, and language,
two young people, played by Jay
Kopp and Cindy Miller, try to find
love and freedom under the ever-
watchful eyes of the party leader,
“Big Brother,” whose voice is
that of David Armold.
The young people struggle to
maintain their convictions of
freedom as they watch their
comrades (Suzanne Meteer and
Diane Gilchrist) being dragged
away to suffer the ultimate crime
of “‘thoughtcrime.”
With the aid of O’Brien
(Jonathan Bridgette), an inner
party member who they believe
is a fellow conspirator, the two
lovers plan their marriage and
their involvment in the
Brotherland, a secret
organization devoted to the
overthrow of the party.
Other cast members include
Gabrielle Amersbach, Donna
Peters, Beth Becker, Deb
Nissley, Cindy Day, Connie
George D. Berryhill
Promoted By A.F.
George D. Berryhill, son of Mr.
and Mrs. George D. Berryhill, 100
Springville Road, has been
promoted to sergeant in the U.S.
Air Force.
Sergeant Berryhill is an
historian at Castle AFB, Calif.,
with a unit of the Strategic Air
Command.
A 197 graduate of Donegal
high school, the sergeant
received his B.S. degree in
economics in 1971 from Juniata
college, Huntingdon, Pa.
Reuter, Dennis Heller, Brenda
Eshleman, Jenny Heistand, Sue
Gohn, Deb Kelly, Vickie Greiner,
Gail Grissinger, Dustin Drenner, °
Marie Splain and Rick Hilt.
Faculty directress is Miss
Carol Ann Behl.
Snyder, treasurer; Vera
Gingrich, secretary; Charles
Maurer, historian; Mary Ann
Lauver, and Vera Albert and Ben
Rohrer, trustees for two years.
Mrs. Zink formed the following
committees:
Publicity - Marguerite Dock
and Mary Ann Lauver; program -
Joanne Zink, Gloria Straub,
Chares Maurer and Vera
Gingrich. Membership - Marlin
Frey, Samuel Dock and Cyrus
Gainer; hospitality - Mary Ann
Lauver and Vera Gingrich;
property - Marguerite Dock, O.K.
Snyder and Ben Rohrer.
The next meeting of the society
will be held on Monday, Jan. 21,
at the Trinity Lutheran church,
Mount Joy, and John W. W.
Loose, president of the Lancaster
County Historical society will be
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~ Post Office Birthday
A birthday - a very unusual birthday -- will be marked in Mount Joy
on Saturday, Dec. 1!
The occasion is the 155th anniversary of the establishment of a post
office in Mount Joy.
According to official government records - copies of which recently
were received by Joseph Schaeffer, former postmaster, - the office
master.
" was established December 1, 1818, and Okey Hendrickson was post-
Schaeffer, who is one of the town’s most avid historians, has had a
long-standing hobby of collecting things and information about Mount
Joy and the immediate area.
Because he was a part of the postal service here for many years,
rising from a substitute clerk to become until only recently the post-
master, he has combined his interests and is now accumulating in-
formation concerning the local post office.
The government lists the following postmasters and the dates they
assumed office:
Okey Hendrickson
James Laird,
Okey Hendrickson,
James W. Hendrickson,
James Laird,
Thomas J. Dysart,
Joshua Leader,
Lewis P, Brady,
Joseph H. Ferguson,
William C.F. Reed,
Jacob W. Shrite,
John B.S. Zeller,
Henry Miller,
Frank G. Pennell,
John F. Fenstermacker,
J. Willis Freed,
John W. Eshleman,
William Tyndall,
Charles J. Bennett,
Charles J. Bennett, Jr.,
Elmer L. Zerphey,
Joseph G. Shaeffer,
December 1, 1818;
June 6, 1837;
May 8, 1841;
May 12, 1841;
October 26, 1844;
February 28, 1849;
May 27, 1853;
June 10, 1857;
September 25, 1865;
August 16, 1877;
April 6, 1888;
April 8, 1892;
June 13, 1896;
June 15, 1899;
April 27, 1904;
July 24, 1916;
December 20, 1921;
September 17, 1927 (acting) ;
December 11, 1935 (acting) January 1, 1936
(assumed charge);
June 15, 1949 (assumed charge) ;
July 27,1953 (assumed charge), August 24, 1953
(acting) ;
November 28, 1970 (assumed charge).
Since August 24, 1973, Gerald Hostetter has been postmaster. He had
been named officer in charge of the local office July 1, 1972, when
Shaeffer retired. Like his predecessor, Hostetter began his postal
service employment as a substitute (April of 1950).