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THE
MOUNT
JOY
VOL. 73 NO. 53
BULLETIN
Ralph M.Snhyder
R- D. @
aint Joy, Pa.
MOUNT JOY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER
MOUNT JOY, PENNA.
JUNE 12, 1974
TEN CENTS
HD, Music in the Park Boro Employs New Manager;
The Red Rose Chorus of the Lancaster Chapter
of the SPEBSQA, Inc., will present a night of
music Saturday, June 15, beginning at 7 p.m. in
The hassle about mini-
courses in Occultism at Penn
Manor seems to be missing
the point.
It is not that knowledge in
any area is inherently bad
and that the course should be
stricken from the
curriculum.
The fault is that time given
and the effort made is sadly
misplaced -- both for the
teacher and the student.
Far better that the em-
phasis be placed in a field
which is more important.
The scope of English elec-
tives includes multiple
choices which are better
fitted to the total education
of youngsters for total living.
Nine weeks spent by a high
school pupil on study of the oc-
cult is a poor choice in the use of
his time, the time of the teacher
and the expense would be better
placed in some other area.
At Donegal high school,
the now-under-construction
auxiliary gymnasium is
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Memorial park.
This is the third year that the chorus has sung
in Mount Joy for a Music in the Park program.
The group is made up of men from the
surrounding area and is under the direction of
Chuck Williams of Columbia.
The chorus placed first in the recent West
Central Division and soon will be entering
competition of the Mid-Atlantic District.
In case of rain, the program will be held at the
W.I. Beahm Junior high school.
A special attraction at the park will be a
rehearsal on Monday night, June 17, of the Sweet
Adelines.
The programs are sponsored by the Mount Joy
Community Council.
PENNY HOARDERS ARE TOUGH
Effort to Draw Out Coins
Only Mildly Successful
Mount Joy penny hoarders
are first-class copper-
blooded penny pinchers!
Or, perhaps, just perhaps,
Mount Joy does not have that
many penny hoarders.
At any rate, an unusual
“penny collecting’’ effort
last week by Weis Markets
did not create an ear-
shattering jingle in Mount
Joy.
Store Manager Herb
Weller said this week that
“We got some. But, not as
‘0b This and That’
by the editor’s wife
When we were youngsters,
we expressed our delight
when school closed for the
summer by this mild little
couplet:
‘““No more lessons, no more
books--
No more teachers’ dirty
looks!”’
We chanted it surrep-
titioysly as we bounded
home, bent on a three-
months holiday!
Not so today! Horns
tooted, motors raced, tires
spun, and brakes squealed
about 12:30 Monday af-
ternoon on Donegal Springs
Road as the youth of Mount
Joy expresses their glee at
the beginning of their
summer vacation.
Perhaps this is an annual
custom, but we hadn’t
happened to notice it before.
During the winter months,
we kept a scented candle
burning on our desk at The
Bulletin, to give a pleasant
fragrance to the office.
It isn’t necessary now!
Charles Heaps, south
Delta street, who grows
roses for pleasure (his own
and other people’s) has
brought us several of his
choice blossoms--and their
beauty and fragrance are
better than any candle that
ever was made! So far, the
flowers have been long-
stemmed hybrid tea roses.
One was an ‘‘Abraham
Lincoln,” another a
“Tropicana’’; and we have
enjoyed them to the fullest.
Visitors to the Bulletin have
also shared their loveliness.
Mr. Heaps brings joy to
others with his roses, too.
The ladies at the
Presbyterian Home get rose-
gifts every week, ably
distributed by Mrs. Bessie
Hayles, herself a rose lover.
Other places along Main
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many as I had expected. No
one customer offered more
than 900.”
The super market last
week had offered a $5 credit
certificate to anyone who
would cash in 450 pennies -
an approximate 11 percent
gain over face value.
Weller added that some
stores - in the cities, par-
ticularly - collected
thousands.
“The best way we have
found,’ he offered, ‘‘is to ask
the customer, when there is
an odd amount purchase, for
the extra pennies.”
The local collection, he
added, did not garner a
week’s supply of pennies for
the Mount Joy store, which
would use between 5000 and
7000.
Mount Joy Borough
Monday night employed a
new borough manager and
voted down a proposed
housing development at the
west edge of town.
Acting unanimously on the
recommendation of its
search committee, Council,
meeting in the borough hall,
employed Joseph Bateman
to fill the vacancy left
recently by the resignation
of George Ulrich, the
borough’s first manager.
Bateman, age 22, has been
serving as assistant
manager at New Cum-
berland, Pa., a community
of about 10,000 people.
He is a native of Delaware
county, Pa., and a 1973
graduate of Shippensburg
college. As a major in public
administration, he served an
internship with the Ship-
pensburg borough and
JOSEPH BATEMAN
Chamber of Commerce,
working on a joint special
project.
The new manager will
assume his duties here about
July 8
Council, Thursday night,
by a count of 5-2, and one
member abstaining, voted to
disapprove a proposed
preliminary plan for the
Donegal Hi Graduates
Record Senior Class
It was the most pleasant
commencement Donegal
high school ever has staged!
Although at 6 o'clock, as
the record sized class of 191
seniors began marching onto
the field, the weather was
very threatening, not a drop
of rain fell and within an
hour the sun was shining
hazily upon the 20th annual
D.H.S. commencement, held
outdoor for the first time on
the football field.
There were seats aplenty
and nature’s air conditioning
overbalanced the weather
threat.
Borough Water Rates
Take Jump in
The Mount Joy Borough
Authority, at its June
meeting held .on June 6,
approved a water rate in-
crease for all levels of
consumers, effective July 1
1974.
The rate change will in-
crease the minimum
quarterly bill for residential
users from $8.50 to $12.50 on
the usage of 10,000 gallons of
water per quarter. The new
rates will be reflected in the
September, 1974, bills.
The increase, the first for
residential consumers since
1959, is to provide additional
revenue for a proposed $1.4
million capital construction
program which will develop
two recently-drilled wells,
Fall
and provide an additional 1.6
million gallons of water per
day.
The additional revenues
also are needed to offset
rising costs in production
and transmission of water in
the existing system. The
Authority said the capital
additions and improvements
program also will provide
additional softening
capacity, which is ' badly
needed because of rapidly
increasing demands, and
will improve both pressure
and fire flows in the system.
The water rate resolution
also revised the minimum
quarterly charges for water,
changed the water rate
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In other years, com-
mencement in the
auditorium has been one of
the most uncomfortable
gatherings of the year. And,
seating was by ticket only.
This year, Tuesday
evening, June 4, anyone was
welcomed outdoors. Some
brought folding chairs.
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Nixes Development Proposal
development of a tract of
land along Donegal Springs
Road, owned by Jones & Zink
and to be known as Penn-
sbury Manor.
Principal problem en-
countered was the method of
handling surface drainage
water.
Council also:
—Voted to hold a public
hearing July 8 at 7:30 p.m. on
the proposed closing of Ice
Alley.
—Voted on final reading to
make three thoroughfares
one-way to all traffic. (Coal
alley, northbound between
E. Main and Apple Tree
alley; Patterson alley,
southbound between E. Main
and Apple Tree alley, and
Apple alley, southbound
between W. Main and Clay
alley).
—Voted to raise rates for
Borough park tennis courts
lights from $1.25 per hour to
$2. Action is to be taken
immediately to abolish the
“honor system’’ payment
plan and to install coin
operated switch boxes at
once. (During the month of
May the ‘honor system’ of
payment collected only $3. It
was estimated that present
electric rates cost the
borough $1.68 per hour).
—Moved to give into the
hands of the Department of
Environmental Resources a
discharge problem said to be
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STEVEN ALBERT RETTEW (left) is the first Donegal
high school graduate to receive his diploma at an outdoor
commencement. Here he is handed the precious certificate
by J. Edw. Charles, president of the Donegal District school
board. Rettew, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rettew, 315 E.
Market street, Marietta, was the first senior to march to the
platform Tuesday night, June 5, at Donegal’s first outdoor
exercise in its 20-year history.