THE
MOUNT
JOY
VOL. 73 NO. 39
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Mount Joy, Pa.
Patrick Industries Open
At the easternmost edge of
Mount Joy borough sit two, new,
handsome - but unnamed - brick
buildings.
Situated at the southwest corner
of Road 230 and the Chiques - Eby
road, the big structures are the
newest set of buildings in a string
of industrial plants which have
been added to the local community
during the past few years.
However, the two structures do
not house industry!
They belong to Patrick
Industries and they are part of
warehousing operation which
serves and supplies manufacturers
of mobile homes, recreational
vehicles, modular homes and
similar other interests. :
And, despite the fact no name
appears on the outside of the
warehouses or the attached brick
office, the firm, Patrick Industries,
is in full operation and is serving
some 60 manufacturers over a
wide area of Pennsylvania,
Maryland and part of Virginia.
- Brent Dowell, manager of the
new facility, told the Bulletin this
week that things are going well in
Mount Joy despite the fact that
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traditionally the mobile home
industry which his firm serves hits
a low cycle of business during the
winter months.
Normally, things pick up about
the first of March, he added, but
speculated about what may happen
in 1974.
Such business factors as ‘tight
money’’, high interest rates,
business uncertainties etc., may
slow the season’s return to normal,
he speculated.
Dowell, young, earnest and
single, is a native of Elkhart,
Indiana, where the corporation
headquarters of Patrick Industries
are located. A graduate of the state
university of Indiana, he has been
with Patrick for five years and was
formerly manager of the com-
pany’s warehouse at Harrisburg.
The location there, however, was
located on the old Olmsted air
base and was closed when the new
Mount Joy buildings were ready.
Specifically, the Mount Joy
warehouse stocks virtually every
item used on the inside of mobile
homes, RV’s (recreation vehicles)
and modular homes, except
plumbing and electrical equip-
ment.
Paneling, ceilings, beams, walls,
carpeting, kitchen and bathroom
cabinets and many more comprise
the supplies stockpiled here.
A lengthy list of manufacturers -
many known nationally in the
building trades and other con-
nected more specifically with
mobile home building - have their
products in the local warehouse.
Traditionally, Dowell revealed,
manufacturers of mobile homes
etc. do not warehouse their own
needs, but depend upon the
facilities of Patrick, which is an old
firm with 17 installations across
the country, including four
manufacturing facilities.
These subsidiaries manufac-
turer supplies such items as
counter tops, rolled edges for
kitchen cabinet doors, drawer
sides, decorative beams, vinyls,
etc., including some new items in
the area of new paneling surfaces
which are not quite ready for
marketing. However, there is no
manufacturing of any kind in
Mount Joy by Patrick.
Dowell, in his bright, attractive
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Warehouses At East Edge Of Boro
MOUNT JOY, PENNA.
FEBRUARY 27, 1974
TEN CENTS
BRENT DOWELL, manager of the newly constructed Patrick Industries, Inc.,
facilities at the east edge of Mount Joy on Road 230 at Eby-Chiques road,
describes the huge warehouse function which serves the mobile homes and
recreation vehicle industry in this area.
By R. A. R.
This is the time of year
when the weatherman is
playing a winning game
against those who are in
charge of keeping streets in
good repair.
And, a short drive around
town reveals that the
damage is sizeable.
It should be pointed out,
however, that every year - if
not this time of the season,
sometime in early Spring -
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Borough Council Talks
With Two Legislators
About Rail Bridges
If response to a pair of
offers by public officials to
hear complaints is a true
indication, people of this
community do not have a
long list of concerns which
they are wanting to discuss.
Friday night, Feb. 22,
Mount Joy’s mayor, James
Gingrich and two state
legislators, Representative
Kenneth Brandt, and
Senator Clarence Manbeck,
visited the local community
to talk with local citizens.
They had invited anyone
interested to call on them
and to discuss anything ‘“‘on
their minds.”
However, few people took
‘0b This and That’
by the editor's wife
by the editor’s wife
There were those who
wanted to call Monday
morning’s snow an ‘‘onion
snow’’!
But we are afraid that was
just wishful thinking. That
one will come later.
Probably the snow this week
was just a plain, ordinary
“February’’ one--and there
may be others in March
before the true ‘‘onion snow’
comes along!
Celeide Sabinbo, the 16-
year-old Brazilian girl who
has been visiting in Mount
Joy for the past ten weeks,
will be going home soon. She
has been a house guest of
Ken and Theresa Newcomer
and their three daughters,
Tammy, Wendy and Beth,
West Donegal street, and has
been attending Donegal High
School as a sophomore, with
Tammy.
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advantage of the op-
portunity. Or - perhaps, few
people have concerns suf-
ficiently weighty to merit
making the effort.
The mayor had two or
three visitors with matters of
personal concern. The
conversations were held at
the borough building.
Gingrich will repeat the
offer of eonversation two
evenings in March.
The legislators, sitting at
the office of B. Titus Rutt,
however, had something of a
different reception.
There were three citizens
who had matters to talk
about.
But, in addition, several
members of the Borough
Council, including president
Warren Foley, had a matter
of highest importance to
Mount Joy.
Previously, in an on-the-
site meeting with Manbeck
and Brandt last summer,
council had solicited the
assistance of the two men in
an effort to solve the knotty
problem of the bridges in the
borough across the Penn
Central railroad tracks.
While there was little
actual progress to discuss
Friday night, the importance
to this community of
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School Board Names Jere Duke
Jere R. Duke was ap-
pointed and sworn into office
Thursday, Feb. 21, as a
member of the Donegal
School District board of
directors.
Duke, his wife, Evelyn,
and two children, Tammy
and Jeff, live on East Main
street, east of Little Chiques
street.
He is corporation
secretary of Lancaster
Malleable Castings com-
pany, Lancaster, with other
duties and responsibilities
connected with the firm.
The new school board
members is a native of
Lancaster, a graduate of
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Father
ONE OF THE FEW father and two sons
in business together in
Mount Joy are Lester, Lavern and Leon
Gehman, who, with other members of the
family, operate Gehman’s Furniture and
combinations
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and Sons In Business
5 ud bo ve
West Main siieet. Shown
inspecting a piece of mer-
chandise, are: (left to right) - Lester Geh-
man, president of the firm, and sons,
Lavern, center, and Leon, right.
Interiors,
together,