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Two Mount Joy people
received special
recognitions last week.
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Betty Groff, who we have
said before is Mount Joy’s
best and widest-known
person, was featured
Wednesday in the
Philadelphia Inquirer, with
pictures, lengthy story and
- recipes-as the author of her
new book, ‘“Good Earth and
Country Cooking.”
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Next thing we know, she’ll
turn up on Merv Griffin's
show. And - if by chance it
could happen-she’d be a
dandy guest.
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An eager worker for the
past few years, he has been
moving up in his party’s
ranks.
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Last week we reported
that a ‘‘penny-raising”’ effort
made by Weis market was
not exceptionally attractive
to Mount Joy shoppers. (An
offer was made of a $5 gift
certificate in exchange for
450 pennies)
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It’s interesting, then, to
learn that the company-wide
effort to lure the coins out of
hoarding caches back into
the stream of the economy
was rated a good success.
bh
The other was Charles O.
Groff, who was elected county
treasurer of the Democrat party.
Ah
In fact, 700,000 pennies were
tumed in by customers, some
taking opportunity to voluntarily
cooperate with a government
plea to breaking the hoarding.
Some Weis customers who had
varying amounts of penny cash
simply paid cash in pennies
without premium en-
couragement.
A
Donegal high school this
spring had its largest
graduating class in history
(191) but not one of the
seniors had a perfect at-
tendance record.
bbe
The 1974 Donegal district
census was completed
recently and showed that
12,333 people live in the
school area - a gain of 1,419
over a year before.
LANGASTER
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NLY NEWSPAPER
FIRM TO MOVE
MOUNT JOY, PENNA.
JUNE 19, 1974
TEN CENTS
OPERATIONS TO MOUNT JOY
Fourth.
EARLY PAPER NEXT WEEK
To accommodate to the Bulletin’s annual Fourth of
July vacation schedule, the paper next week will be
published one day earlier than usual.
ALL material for the June 26th issue, must be in the
Bulletin office by 7 a.m. Monday morning, June 24.
There will be no Bulletin published the week of July
LARGEST NUMBER EVER
Give Prizes At Banquet
The largest number of
guests ever entertained at a
Mount Joy 75 Plus banquet
attended the 1974 party, held
Thursday evening, June 13,
at Hostetter’s.
A fried chicken dinner was
served to the 200 people who
attended the annual affair
held for the community’s
senior citizens.
Mount Joy Jaycees and
Joycee-ettes were co-hosts,
the former handling tran-
sportation, as needed, and
the latter group was in
charge of reservations.
~Jaycee President Jeff
Brown welcomed and guests
and Joycee-ette President
Elect Crystal Fackler and
President LaVon Harnish
awarded prizes of fruit
baskets.
Prizes went to:
Mrs. Nellie Young —
Birthday nearest to June 13.
(Born on June 13).
Mr. and Mrs. Chris
Brubaker — Anniversary
nearest to June 13. (Married
June 2). ‘
Rev. and Mrs. Graybill
Wolgemuth — Married the
longest. (Married for 60
years).
Mrs. Mary Climenhaga —
Person living farthest
away. (Messiah Home,
Harrisburg).
Daniel Wolgemuth and
Mrs. Mark Brubaker —
Person having most sur-
viving brothers and sisters.
(Each with eight).
Also, 16 geraniums were
given as door prizes.
Program for the evening
featured the W. Richard
Kohler family — Rev.
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Floral Creations, Inc., To Occupy
Old Cotton Mill On East Main St.
By about August 1,
or some time shortly
thereafter, the old cotton mill on Mount Joy’s
east Main Street will be occupied by a firm new
to this community.
Willis H. Byers, president, told the Bulletin
last week that his Floral Creations, Inc., will
move to the building from Lancaster.
Now operating in three
different locations in Lan-
caster, the local building will
now house offices,
warehousing, distributing
and assembly operations.
The firm, Byers said, buys
artificial flowers from
foreign countries, and then
assembles and arranges
them for sale to wholesalers,
department stores and other
outlets.
In Mount Joy, an
estimated 20 people, plus
salesmen who work out of
the office, and a few others,
possibly, will be involved at
* first.
However, one reason for
the move to Mount Joy is
need for larger space to
Three Mount Joy Boys
To Attend Boys State
Three Donegal high school
pupils who will be seniors in
the fall will take part in the
1974 Keystone Boys State, to
be held June 23 - 30 at Penn
State University, University
Park, Pa.
Boys State is sponsored by
the American Legion
Department of Penn-
sylvania.
The three boys are:
Dean Buchenaur, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Buchenauer, 121 New Haven
Street, Mount Joy;
William Landis, sen Dr.
and Mrs, William Landis,
Columbia R1; and
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expand and for handling
innovative designs and
arrangements not now
possible.
As the operation grows, so
will the work force, Byers
said.
Although there probably
will .be some local hiring, a
major portion of the present
employees likely will be
shifted from Lancaster to
Mount Joy.
Floral Creations, Inc., is a
subsidiary of the Herman
Rynveld’s Son Corp of New
York.
There is another plant at
New Albany, N.Y. Mr.
Rynveld resides at Port
Washington, N.Y.
To supply the assembly
and arrangement business
which will be conducted in
Mount Joy, supplies are
shipped from Hong Kong,
Taiwan, Thailand and Italy.
Huge, special ‘‘con-
tainers’’, packed with
flowers, arrive by ships in
Baltimore, where they are
unloaded onto the dock,
mounted on wheels and then
moved - still in original
packing - by highway
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Unexpected Salvage At Bricker's Diner
A start toward removing one of the three unused and
deteriorating buildings at the old ‘‘Bricker Diner” site on
Route 283 has begun.
But, demolition is not part of an anticipated project of the
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
In fact, until Monday afternoon, PennDOT did not know of
any activity on the site and two representatives were con-
siderably upset when they found both the east and west ends
of the diner torn away.
A private investigation by
the Bulletin disclosed
Monday afternoon that
representatives of ‘“A York
Boys club’ had been on the
site over the weekend and
had removed salvage for use
on a project in the White
Rose county.
The Bricker Diner area
has been a source of much
discussion since three
buildings — the diner, a
service station and another
building most recently used
commercially as a trailer
sales office — were ‘‘fenced
in” by designation of Road
283 as a limited access high-
way.
Agreements and
arrangements necessary for
the buildings to be razed, and
the debris removed, have
been reached during the past
few months and on May 26
the state was to receive bids
for such removal.
The PennDOT officials
who visited the site Monday
arrived to study the site and
to learn, if they could, the
exact location of the septic
tank.
When they arrived they
found that, as they said, “‘a
lot of goodies” had been
removed from the old diner
building.
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BRICKER'’S DINER, located east of Mount Joy on Road 283, was the scene last weekend of an unex-
pected salvage operation. Although a PennDOT removal project was scheduled for this summer,
representatives of ““a Boys club from York’ - with permission from the land owner - moved in and tore
holes in both ends of the building to remove materials they wanted. Looking east, the above photo is
through a gaping hole where the kitchen area was located. The tent in which the salvage crew spent the
weekend is seen through the hole.
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