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VOL. 73 NO. 50
BULLETIN
MOUNT JOY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER
MOUNT JOY, PENNA.
MAY 22, 1974
TEN CENTS
HD, Donegal Budget Hike MouNT JOY READY FOR ‘74
MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVANCE
By R.A. R.
Word from the Mount Joy
borough administration is
that next week a special
committee will begin in-
terviewing applicants for the
position of Borough
Manager.
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The committee is hopeful
that it will be possible to
have a new man ready by
mid-summer to take the job
left vacant by the
resignation of George
Ulrich.
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Sixty applications were
received and they have been
sifted to a relatively small
number for personal con-
ferences.
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Rough grading for the new,
Donegal high school running
track, located immediately
north of the present baseball
field, is virtually completed.
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The area is beginning to
‘look’ like a track with the
oval laid out in an east-west
attitude.
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D.H.S. Principal Donald
Drenner said early this week
that slightly more than a
quarter of the $20,000 needed
to construct a new auxiliary
gymnasium at the east side
of the present gymnasium,
has been received.
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=" Nearly Half Million
Donegal school district’s
1974-’75 proposed budget
calls for spending of nearly a
half million dollars more
than this year!
And, to meet that hike,
real estate taxes are
scheduled to take a six mill
jump to a record 75 mills.
The proposed budget of
$3,811,521 was submitted and
the tax increase approved
Thursday evening, May 16,
by the Board of Education at
its monthly meeting held in
the Donegal high school
library.
The 1973-74 budget totaled
$3,332,510.
Three other taxes to raise
the local district’s share of
the record budget are
proposed:
1. - a $10 per capita tax on
8,108 adults.
2 - a 3 percent earned
income tax, and
3. - a one percent real
estate tax transfer tax.
The three are the same as
1973-'74.
The. proposed budget is
expected to be finally passed
Thursday night, June 20, as
the board holds its June
meeting.
Largest increase in costs
for 1974-75 school year is for
instruction, which has
moved up $176,006, or 36.74
per cent.
Capital outlay jumps 20.78
percent; operation and
maintenance of physical
plant, 16.64 percent; fixed
charges, 8.50 percent; and
pupil transportation, 3.97
percent.
PUPIL SMOKING AREA?
Special Area Asked, But
—Smokers/Non-Smokers
Should Donegal high
school have a designated
“smoking area’’?
At the May meeting of
the Donegal District School
Board, a petition was made
for such an arrangement.
However, the matter was
not decided.
Although the request was
presented in such a manner
that it appeared that pupils
who smoke are seeking a
place at school where they
‘0b This and That’
by the editor’s wife
Again, a trip to Southern -
Indiana ... and again by
Amtrak...
The forest trees were in
blossom all along the 650
miles of the journey — tulip
poplars, lindens, locusts,
chestnuts and buckeyes, to
mention just a few. The
hillsides were beautiful with
new green leaves of varying
shades and patches of white
blooms like a light blanket of
snow in amongst them.
Wild mustard, with its
golden yellow, was in bloom
in the fields, as well as wild
sweet william and iris along
the tracks.
It is always an incredible
trip, partly because of the
complete irresponsibility of
the railroad as to the time it
takes to make it. A normal
ride is 13 hours — but it often
takes seventeen or eighteen,
for reasons beyond the
knowing of anyone,
especially the passengers.
Along the way, we
overheard conversations
that indicated dissatisfaction
in this area. One young
woman had come to John-
stown to board the train at
5:10 a.m., only to find it
would not arrive until 10:30!
She sat for five hours in the
uncomfortable station!
A man and his wife were
worried because their son
was coming to meet them
from a distance, and he
would have to wait four
hours for their arrival.
Others were concerned
about making connections
with trains in Philadelphia
and New York.
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may have a few drags, the
fact of the matter is the plea
probably, more correctly,
represents a cry from non-
smokers.
The proposal went to the
board from the D.H.S.
Student Council, proposing
that an area ‘‘outside the
cafeteria’ door be
designated as a smoking
area. Sand buckets would be
provided, the petitioners
said, in the smoking area.
Also, pupils would be
required to submit a per-
mission statement from
their parents, if they use the
area.
Although the petition, on
the surface, would seem to
be a call from those who
smoke for a designated area,
the plea is something of a
call for help from non-
smoking boys and girls, a
Donegal schoolman said
after the meeting.
What happens, it was
explained, is that pupils who
smoke fill the lavs, light up
and fog the rooms with
clouds of smoke.
They choke the small
rooms, not only with smoke,
but by their lingering
presence and
limiting and discouraging
the normal use of the lav
facilities.
The problem is not new.
Parents have reported the
matter for several years,
complaining that some
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Memorial Day Weekend
IN MOUNT JOY - 1974
SATURDAY, MAY 25
9:00 a.m. - Joycee-ette Bake Sale
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. - Art Show at Phillips
Studio
2 p.m. - Parade
Immediately after parade - Carnival at
Kunkle Field
SUNDAY, MAY 26
10:30 a.m. - V.F.W. to attend worship ser-
vices at St. Luke’s Episcopal church
1:00 p.m. to 6 p.m. - Art Show at Phillips
Studio
2to4 p.m. - Open House at Library
7:00 - Vesper Services at Memorial Park by
Interchurch Council
MONDAY, MAY 27
10:00 a.m. - Memorial Services at Memorial
Park by American Legion and V.F.W.
7 p.m. - Music in the Park and Crowning of
Princess by Joycee-ettes
I Am Your Flag’
Some people call me “Old Glory.” Some call
me ‘‘The Star Spangled Banner.”
Whatever they call me, I am your flag. The
flag of the United States of America! But,
something’s been bothering me. So, I thought I
might talk with you because it is about You and
Me.
I remember, some time ago, people lined up on
both sides of the street to watch the parade, and
naturally I was leading every parade, waving
proudly in the breeze!
When your Daddy saw me coming, he im-
mediately removed his hat, and placed his hand
directly over his heart. Remember?
And I remember you ... standing there straight
as a soldier! You didn’t have a hat, but you were
giving the right salute. Remember little sister?
Not to be outdone, she was saluting the same as
you — with her right hand over her heart —
remember?
What happened? I'm still the same Old Flag!
Oh, I have a few more stars since you were a boy.
A lot more blood has been shed since those
parades of long ago. But now I don’t feel as proud
as I used to.
thereby
When I come down the street — you just stand
there with your hands in your pockets, and I may -
get a small glance and then you look away. Then
I see children running around and shouting. They
don’t seem to know who I am. I saw one man take
his hat off, then look around. He didn’t see
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Under the sponsorship of
the Community Council,
Mount Joy will observe
Memorial Day 1974 with a
three-day weekend of varied
activities.
A program of events
begins on Saturday and
continues through Monday,
PARADE ROUTE
Saturday's Memorial
Day parade route in
Mount Joy will be as
follows:
Form in the area
around Angle and Church
streets.
Step off at 2 p.m., move
south on Angle, east on
Main and disperse at
Park Avenue.
including the community's
highest point of total par-
ticipation on Saturday for
the annual big parade.
A program of the planned
. activities appears on this
page of the Bulletin.
Although the overall
planning for the community
holiday is in charge of the
Council, headed by Mrs.
Franklin Zink, numerous
other organizations are
taking part, assuming
responsibility for planning
individual events and for
staging the parade.
The Mount Joy American
Legion, with James Buchler
in charge, is handling details
of putting the parade units
together.
The parade is scheduled to
step off at 2 p.m. and proceed
from Main and Angle street
in the Florin ward eastward
on Main street to Park
avenue.
Mrs. Zink asked early this
week that all American
Legion officers riding in the
parade supply their own
signs.
Legion and Vets
To Attend Services
W.S. Ebersole Post 185
American Legion and the
Auxiliary and Post 5752
Veterans of Foreign Wars
and its Auxiliary will attend
Memorial Services Sunday,
May 26, at 10:30 a.m. at St.
Luke’s Episcopal church at
the corner of S. Market St.
and Columbia Ave. in Mount
Joy.
Rev. Donald M. Whitesel,
rector, will conduct
the service and deliver the
Memorial Address.