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VOL. 74 NO. 8
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By R. A. R.
Announcement that the
Parkwood Homes plant on
East Main Street has been
purchased by AMP, Inc., as
a storage, warehouse,
shipping and possibly
manufacturing site, come as
a pleasant piece of news.
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Various benefits appear.
Not the least is the
probability that the location
now will take its place as a
‘‘good looking’’ factory
facility.
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AMP, at its many locations
in the area, is known as a
‘‘good housekeeper’’,
keeping its property in good
appearance.
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Located alongside
National-Standard and NCR, the
new AMP location will be a plus
for the ‘‘eastern gateway’ to
Mount Joy.
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NCR, which has had a long
and difficult problem of
correcting water surface
problems, is nearing com-
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TRAV
Jon Sheetz, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Gerald Sheetz, and
John Hayman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Warren Hayman,
flew to France last Thursday
to be guests for six weeks of
Gilles Reynier and his
family in Nice.
Gilles and his brother,
Jean, both have been guests
in Mount Joy homes under
the Lions Club program of
‘“‘exchanging”’ children
across the sea for summer
visits.
Jon and John, ac-
companied by Mr. and Mrs.
Sheetz, went to Albany,
N.Y., where they joined a
busload of students from all
over the Eastern Seaboard,
who are part of the Lions
Exchange program.
From Albany they went to
Montreal, for an Air Canada
flight to Paris, In Paris the
students went their separate
ways, to various countries.
Jon and John will spend a
part of their time with. Gilles
and his family, and also visit
with a cousin of Gilles’ and
his family, Frederick
Council Votes Police
~~" Percentage Raises;
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MOUNT JOY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER
Two-Year Package
Mount Joy police officers, according to action taken
Monday night, July 15, by Borough Council at a special
meeting, have entered
agreement.
into a two-year employment
Wages set included an 11 percent salary increase for the
year 1975and a 9 percent hike in 1976.
Negotiations, which have
been under way for several
weeks, included a holiday for
each officer on his birthday
and a $25 a year ‘‘shoe repair
and replacement’’
allowance.
The council Monday night
accepted the agreement,
subject to approval of its
finance and administration
committee.
Recommendation of the
two-year agreement was
made by Mayor James A.
Gingrich, who said that the
increases are ‘‘across the
board,” for the borough’s
four patrolmen. Police J.
Bruce Kline is not involved
in the employment
agreement, the mayor said.
The increases would up.the
police department budget
figure from $29,400 this year
to $32,634 in ’75 and to $35,571
in '76; Gingrich revealed.
Part-time officers also are to
have similar pay increases.
Gingrich said that Mount
Joy’s police pay scale is
“just below” similar sized
boroughs in the county but
that the '75-'76 agreements
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MOUNT JOY, PENNA.
JULY 17, 1974
TEN CENTS
Gerberich-Payne To Close
Mount Joy Shoe Plant
200 EMPLOYEES NOTIFIED OF MOVE;
PLAN PHASE-OUT OVER FEW MONTHS
Gerberich-Payne Shoe company — for 55 years one of the backbone industries of Mount
Joy — is to be phased out and the plant closed.
Ben Rubin, president of the Cannon Shoe company of Baltimore, told the Bulletin this
week that the ‘‘close-out’’ will be accomplished over a period of a few months as production
commitments are completed.
Public announcement of
the phasing out was made
Monday by Fred Smith,
general manager of the local
‘OF This and That’
So many times we have
whizzed across the Penn-
sylvania Turnpike, hyp-
notized by speed, barely
seeing the spectacular
scenery to our right and to
our left!
Often we have said to
ourselves, ‘‘Some time it
would be interesting to take
old U.S. 30 through the
mountains, just to see what it
is like.”
But we never had the time.
It was always important that
we cross the mountains in
the quickest possible way!
This summer, however,
ELERS
Robin, in Romans, near
Grenoble, France.
They will return home
Aug. 21.
TO HAWAII
Ms. Martha Kretzing, 176
Manheim Street, returned on
Sunday from a week's
vacation in Hawaii.
She visited points of in-
terest on the islands, at-
tended a Polynesian luau,
and enjoyed the sun, sand
and surf of Waikiki Beach.
TO THE WEST COAST
Mr. and Mrs. Gene
Newcomer and sons, Brad
and Brian, Richland Lane,
reurned on Monday from a
month’s vacation trip to the
west coast.
Among the many in-
teresting places the
Newcomers visited were the
Grand Canyon, Reno, Los
Angeles, San Francisco,
Yellowstone National Park,
Pikes Peak, and Mount
Rushmore.
Highlights of the 8,000-mile
trip included the Grand
Canyon, Yellowstone, a
Pacific seacoast drive
between Los Angles and San
Francisco and a barbecue
and cowboy show on a
working ranch in Colorado.
TO KENTUCKY
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sentz
and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald
Keener and daughter,
Stephanie, spent last week
end in Kentucky. They were
joined there by Mr. and Mrs.
Archie Wilkins of Pitt-
sburgh, who were returning
home from a vacation in
Florida.
MOVE TO WASHINGTON
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Beall
and children, who have been
living for the past few years
in Cleveland, Ohio, moved
the last week in June to
Silver Spring, Md. Dr. Beall
has accepted a position with
the National Health Service
and began his new duties last
week.
TO SCOTLAND
Rev. Wesley G. Epler of
Annville, R2, pastor of the
Trinity and Emanuel United
Methodist churches, has
returned from a 16-day
seminar for ministers and
laymen at the University of
hart,
Naugle, Mr. and Mrs. John
Wittle, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Wittle, Mrs. Christine Brown
and Mrs. Yvonne Koser were
among those notified last
Tuesday that a Lions Club
crujse to the Caribbean had
been cancelled.
planned
by the editor’s wife
brought us our chance. On a
leisurely trip out to Dayton,
Ohio, during our vacation,
we had the time!
We headed over to York,
picked up U.S. 30, and drove
it all the way out to New
Stanton, Pa. What a
rewarding trip it was! There
wasn’t much that was new or
particularly interesting until
we got past Chambersburg,
and the ’‘‘traffic was
terrific,” But, between
Chambersburg and New
Stanton it was tremendously
worthwhile.
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Edinburgh, Scotland.
The seminar, conducted by
world-renowned theologians,
was interspersed with tours
of castles, cathedrals and
other points of interest in
Scotland.
En route home the group
spent several days in Lon-
don. England, and visited
points of interest nearby.
Rev. Epler, a former
resident of Mount Joy is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. S.G.
Epler, Wood Street.’
CRUISE CANCELLED
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Barn-
Mr. and Mrs. G.F.
The Cunard liner, ‘“The
Adventurer,” on which they
were to have sailed caught
fire in its boiler room, and
was tied up in port waiting
for parts so repairs could be
made.
company was unable to find
a substitute liner in time to
make the cruise.
The steamship
The Mount Joy group
to fly to
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firm, which is operated as a
subsidiary of the Cannon
company.
About 200 employees are
involved locally. They were
told of the business change at -
a group meeting.
Rubin said that no detailed
plans have been made
concerning the machinery in
the Mount Joy plant or the
disposition of the property,
which includes the factory
itself, office and one
residential building.
Rubin had no comment
concerning reasons for
closing the Mount Joy
operation, which is one of
four locations within the
Cannon organization. One is
at Reading, another at
Hagerstown, Md., and a
third at Thurmont, Md.
Cannon has operated the
Gerberich-Payne shoe
company since 1969-'70. That
Plant Oak in Ireland
company bought the
business from George A.
Ecclesine, who purchased
the shoe manufacturing
plant from the Gerberichs in
1964.
The late Enos S. Gerberich
and the late Frank Payne
hegan shoe manufacturing
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To Hear Problems
With U.S. Govt’
Thomas W. Bucher, field
representative for
Congressman Edwin. D.
Eshleman, will sit in the post
office of Mount Joy on
Saturday, July 20.
He will be available from
11 a.m. to noon.
Anyone having any
problem at all involving the
federal government is in-
vited to discuss it with
Bucher.
TO DONEGAL
TO IRELAND
Mrs. Herbert Sarver, Rev.
Herbert Moyer, Rev. and
Mrs. Robert Murphy and
Rollin Steinmetz, all
members of the
congregation of Donegal
Presbyterian Church, have
returned from a two-weeks
trip to Ireland, where they
joined in the celebration of
the 300th birthday of
Rathneeny Church in County
Donegal, from which settlers
came more than 250 years
ago to found the Lancaster
County Donegal Church.
Also in the party making
the trip were Mrs. Kay
Ammerman of York,
representing the Donegal
Presbytery, Mrs. Verna
Kuntzleman of
Elizabethtown representing
the Witness Tree chapter of
The Daughters of the
American Revolution, and
Mrs. "Mary Stewart of
Annapolis.
The group flew by 747 jet to
Shannon, Ireland, where
they rented a minibus for the
trip to County Donegal.
During their two-weeks stay,
Mr. Steinmetz and Rev.
Murphy drove the bus some
1800 miles around the Irish
countryside. A part of their
trip was across the tip of
Northern Ireland, but they
experience no difficulty
other than being stopped
rather frequently for in-
spection.
Headquarters for the
pilgrims was a hotel in
Donegal. They participated
in the week-long festivities at
the old church. Highlights of
the week included the Friday
evening service, which Rev.
Moyer was graciously asked
to plan in its entirety, a
communion service in which
Mrs. Sarver and Mrs.
Ammerman served as guest
elders, and the planting on
Sunday of an oak tree on the
church grounds by Rev.
Moyer.
An interesting sidelight on
the trip is the fact that the
grandfather of Rev. Murphy,
pastor of the Donegal
Church, preached at the
Irish Donegal. Rev. Murphy,
however, had never
previouly been to Ireland.