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MOUNT
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VOL. 73 NO. 35
Kaiph M.Snyder
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MOUNT JOY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER
MOUNT JOY, PENNA.
JANUARY 30, 1974
TEN CENTS
OPTIONAL PLAN OFFERED SENIOR BOYS AND GIRLS
New Donegal Educational Program to Involve Community
A new kind of educational experience - stretching from the
class room into professions and businesses in the community
-is scheduled to go into effect this Spring for Donegal seniors.
D.H.S. Principal Donald Drenner said this week that
members of P.0.D. classes have been introduced to the new
“Career Elective Program,” which will be carried out
during the month of May.
In a nut shell, the plan provides for boys and girls, who are
interested, to be given credit for school attendance for
working in and with a business, industry or profession which
has special interest to them as individuals. :
Pupils who choose to participate will outline their field of
interest and make written proposals to the school. A faculty
advisor will be assigned and an effort made to place the
youngster with a firm or individual in the community which
is engaged in that particular activity.
Drenner, as he told the Bulletin about the program, said,
“For instance, if a boy or girl is interested in journalism, he
would make application to the school, outlining his proposal
concerning the Career Elective program and detailing his
interest in journalism, stating his personal goals and ob-
jectives.
“If the program is set up for him, the pupil spends time
with .you, working, watching, asking, participating and
learning about various phases of journalism under actual
working conditions.”
Any number of other student business connections are
available throughout the community.
The youngster would not be paid, Drenner added. The
benefit is the learning experience and enrichment, plus the
giving of himself. The community sponsor is a teacher; not
an employer. :
* Pupils later would be required to do specific reports,
projects etc. at school as part of the program.
Parental permission must be given for the youngster to
participate .
Drenner said that the program is designed to help boys and
girls to reach beyond themselves in to a new learning ad-
venture toward self-realization and self-discovery. It is an
effort to expand the walls of the school and to help bring the
The youngster would not be paid, Drenner added. The
benefit is the learning experience and enrichment, plus the
giving of himself. The community sponsor is a teacher; not
an employer.
Pupils later would be required to do specific reports,
projects etc. at school as part of the program.
Parental permission must be given for the youngster to
participate.
Drenner said that the program is designed to help boys and
girls to reach beyond themselves in to a new learning ad-
venture toward self-realization and self-discovery. It is an
effort to expand the walls of the school and to help bring the
real world into the educational domain through the
cooperation of the surrounding community.
The program is optional and will begin May 6, coritinuing
through May 31.
Drenner said that this program of community involvement
has been used successfully in an eastern Pennsylvania
real world
into the educational
domain through the
cooperation of the surrounding community.
high school and that pupil choices of professional and
vocational interests covered 60 fields of interest.
Donegal’s basketball
Indians had a three-game
winning string going last
week for what is not a half-
bad achievement - under the
circumstances.
“Circumstances’’ includes
a number of things but
principally it refers to the
fact that only two of the lads
who are going with the first
string for Coach Emil Swift
By R. A. R.
Last week we mentioned in
this column that if you have
not seen the new spotlight on
the Memorial park flag pole,
you'd enjoy the sight.
Interestingly, another [Hd
floodlighted flag pole in the are more than juniors. The
community has been Other ‘circumstance’ is the
darkened. fact that the three wins in a
Not many months ago
students at Donegal high
school installed a flood lamp
row are the only wins the
Indians have had all season.
But, like home springing
eternal, there has been a lot
of talk recently about ‘just
wait until next year.”
The two seniors are Phil
Waters and Jack Dettinger.
The latter, in 16 games until
to illuminate the flag atop
the D.H.S. building.
The school has been very
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‘0b This aud That’
by the editor’s wife
Something new has been
added to the display of old
trains in The Bulletin win-
dow. It is an oil painting of
the old Pennsylvania
Railroad station in Mount
Joy, done by Mrs. Rebecca
Sheetz widow of Roy Sheetz,
and the mother and grand-
mother of the Gerald R.
Sheetz family.
Mrs. Sheetz, one of whose
creative hobbies is painting
in oils has done many can-
vasses of Mount Joy scenes
and buildings. They hang in
a number of local homes,
and are highly prized by
their owners.
The 68-degree weather on
Sunday gave Mount Joy a
foretaste of spring. And,
determined not to let one
minute of it go to waste,
people induiged in
springtime activities!
One young family we know
packed a picnic lunch and
went down to the Strasburg
Railroad after church.
The tennis courts were
well-patronized, and
bicycles on the streets and
roads were much in
evidence!
Sky diving was popular at
the Airport, and out at
Donegal Springs, young
people were ‘feeding the
fish’ in the big pool behind
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Donegal Indians Run
Basketball Victory String
To Three — Then, Wham!
this week, has banged in 129
points, and the former 104.
Phil is the fourth best scorer
on the team, to date, and
Waters is sixth.
In the meantime, Swift has
been playing as many as 13
different men in recent
games, spreading the ex-
perience as the season
moves down hill and ‘“‘next
year’ begins to look im-
portant.
After this week, only four
games will remain on the
1973-74 schedule.
However important the
three-game victory string
may or may not be, it came
to an end on Friday night
against Elco, setting the
season, as of last weekend,
at 13 - 3.
Against Pequea Valley, on
Jan. 22, the Indians grabbed
a neat, 84-53, win only to turn
around and on Friday, the
25th, bow to Elco, 78 - 61.
Against PV, the Indians
ran four men into double
figures with Nate Bridgett,
hitting 10 fielders and a free
throw for 21. Kevin Miller
had 17, Dave Schlosser 13,
and Fellenbaum 10. It was
the latter’s best night of the
season. Twelve men shared
in the scoring.
Donegal poured through 26
points in the first half and the
visitors were busy all
evening trying to stay even,
let alone catch up.
The Donegal JV’s took a
prelim victory, 51 - 23.
On Friday night, it was a
different story. Donegal
found the role reversed and
was fighting all the way to
even up a first-period deficit
MOUNT JOY FARMERS’ CO-OP BOARD
TO REORGANIZE THURSDAY FOR 74
Directors of the Mount Joy Farmers Cooperative will meet Thursday, Jan. 31, to re-
organize for the year 1974 following the organization’s annual meeting last Thursday.
The seven-man board will name officers for what may be one of the coop’s most important
years of decision.
Lewis Bixler, Marietta R1, is president.
The board includes one new director elected at the annual meeting, held at Hostetters at
noon on Jan. 24, and two re-elected directors.
They are: Preston
Newcomer, Mount Joy RI,
newly elected for three
-years, Bixler for one year
and Albert Fry Jr., Manheim
R2, for three years. Other
directors include: Roy
Alger, Palmyra R1; James
Eshelman, Mount Joy R2; E.
Robert Nolt, Laneaster R.R.,
and Henry Garber,
Elizabethtown, Rl.
During the past year the
coop marketed $3,839,000
worth of milk for ap-
proximately 100 members of
the organization through the
Lehigh Cooperative in
Allentown.
In 1974 Mount Joy
discontinued handling milk
in cans. The local operation
since 1929 has handled cans
of milk at the Ice street
plant. However, the number
has been declining until just .
before Christmas when that
phases of the business was
discontinued entirely. All
milk is now picked up on the
dairy farms in tank trucks.
How the business will
evolve during 1974 is
unknown. At the time the
local business was founded,
there were a number of other
similar cooperatives in the
and at the half trailed 36 - 25.
Things were not better - only
worse - after the in-
termission.
Bridgett led with 18 points,
Schlosser had 12.
The Tribe's JV’s lost by a
46 - 39 score.
area. Now there is only
Mount Joy.
Manager Simeon Horton
reported that the five top
producers of milk for the
local cooperative in 1973 are:
Alepha Farm, owned by
Elvin and Paul Kreider,
Palmyra R2 (1,450,689
pounds); Henry E. Kreider,
Manheim R1, (1,147,138);
Margin and Roy Alger,
Palmyra R1 (757,674) ; Lloyd
H. Moyer, Manheim R2,
(741,380), and David E.
Miller, Mount Joy R2,
(709,139).
“Out of Gas" Signs Blossom
On Mount Joy Main Street
“Out of Gas’ signs
blossomed in Mount Joy over
the weekend like flowers in
the Spring!
Mount Joy filling stations,
as they neared the end of the
month, found themselves
looking at dry empty gauges,
as motorists eyed the
weekend and felt the need for
minor supply problems and
few motorists locally have
been obliged to go shopping
far from their familiar and
“regular’’ stations.
First of the month is ex-
pected tc give some relief as
stations which have sold
their January quotas are
,beginning their February
allotments.
It is interesting to note that
Mount Joy's service stations
— with one exception — are
located on Main street.
fuel.
By noon, Saturday, or
shortly thereafter, three
Main street service station
had posted the now-familiar
notices of woe and had called
the week’s work finished.
Others, however, were
serving motorists who were
lined up on both sides of the
pump islands.
"On Dean's List
Linda Grissinger,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Bernerd Grissinger, 204
Park Avenue, has been
named to the Dean’s List at
the University of Delaware,
where she is a sophomore
student, majoring in
elementary education. She
earned a perfect 4.0 average
for the fall semester work.
However, Monday mor-
ning found at least one of the
Saturday afteroon casualties
back in business.
Mount Joy, because of its
comparative isolation from
the hoards of gas-hungry
drivers, has suffered only