THE
MOUNT
JOY
VOL. 74 NO. 17
BULLETIN
MOUNT JOY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER
By R.A. R.
Young John Weidman, son
of Mr. and Mrs. John
Weidman, south Market
street, has had a couple of
“bad breaks”!
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And, we do mean bad
breaks. Early this summer,
while playing basketball, he
broke an arm.
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About six weeks or so ago
the cast was taken off and
life was returning to normal
for the Donegal high school
senior.
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But, a few days ago he was
playing soccer. As goalie he
tandled with a threatening
scorer and in the entanglement,
he broke his leg.
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This time it will be maybe
four months before he is
back in action — missing
high school basketball
season.
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Recently, you read in the
papers about a load of U.S.
mail burning along a high-
way? The remains were
taken to a rescue center and
everything which could be
salvaged was saved and sent
on to the person for whom it
was intended.
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At least one piece of the
damaged mail arrived here for
the Mount Joy Rotary club.
Aithough almost al! of the
message had been charred
away, what was left had been
inserted in a new government
envelope and sent along for
whatever use the remaining
contents might be.
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A copy of the May 6, 1908,
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- Longenecker to Enter
Gloria Longenecker,
daughter of Lineaus
Longenecker, Manheim, has
been entered as a contestant
in the Lancaster County
Scholarship Pageant, to be
held at Ephrata.
Now a freshman at
Lebanon Valley college,
Gloria is a 1974 graduate of
Donegal high school, where
she probably was the most
versital musician ever to
participate at D.H.S.
The entry is sponsored by
the Mount Joy Jaycees.
Gloria makes home on
Fairview street with her
grandmother, Mrs. W. Lloyd
Billow, and her sister and
husband, Glen and Sylvia
(Longenecker) Weaver.
While in high school,
Gloria was a member of the
chorus, band, Booster Club,
Youth Education
association, yearbook
committee and the National
Honor Society.
Gifted with a ranging
soprano voice, she had the
female lead in Donegal’s
production last school year
of ‘Brigadoon’.
She also participated in
county, regional and district
band, chorus and orchestra.
At Lebanon Valley she is
majoring in voice and flute.
The Lancaster County
Scholarship Pageant,
sponsored by the Ephrata
Jaycees, is a preliminary to
the Miss Pennsylvania
Pageant. It provides an
opportunity for young
women to win scholarships
to further their education
and to gain opportunites to
broaden their horizons. The
pageant includes talent,
evening gown and swimsuit
competition as well as
personal interviews.
For her talent com-
petition, Gloria will present
the vocal selection ‘‘Vissi
d’Arte,” from the opera
“Tosca’’ by Puccini.
The pageant will be held on
Saturday, Sept. 28, at 8 p.m.
at Ephrata high school.
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by the editor’s wife
The lettuce and radishes
are growing nicely, thank
you. The tomato vines are
full of ripening tomatoes.
The beets and carrots are
doing well.
But the garden itself has a
look of autumn about it! It
doesn’t look at all as if did in
June and July.
Maybe it’s the brown
cornstalks which we haven’t
cut down yet. Maybe it’s the
Hoosier dahlias blooming
profusely. Or perhaps it’s the
Romaine lettuce gone to seed
.. or the cabbage plants
minus their heads...
For whatever the reason,
the garden looks as if the
harvest time is at hand, with
the true growing season
over!
But what a season it has
been! We had ‘‘beginner’s
luck,” it seems, and have felt
amply repaid for our efforts.
We have feasted on various
plantings of lettuce and
radishes. We have long
strings of onions hung in the
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Miss Lancaster County Contest
GLORIA LONGENECKER, Fairview street, has been
entered in the 1974 Miss Lancaster County contest, to be held
at Ephrata Saturday, Sept. 28. Called the Lancaster County
Scholarship Pageant, the program will feature talent,
evening gown and swimsuit competition and personal in-
terview. She will present as her talent a soprano sole, “Vissi
d’Arte’’ from Puccini’s opera “Tosca.
MOUNT JOY, PENNA.
SEPTEMBER 18, 1974
TEN CENTS
Street Improvement
Program Scheduled
To Begin This Week
Mount Joy Borough’s 1974 street improvement program is
expected to get under way this week, moving toward
upgrading some 20 blocks of thoroughfare, mostly in the
Florin Ward area.
Machinery was being moved in early this week, cauncil
was told at its September meeting, held Monday night.
The program is to be
completed by October 15.
Although it also is located
in the Florin area, a
program to improve
Orchard is a cooperative
program between the
borough and Mount Joy
township. Work is to begin at
once to widen the roadway
and to put in base material
and then surface with oil and
stone chips.
In other business Monday,
council —
Expressed need to
approach outdoor Christmas
lighting with ‘‘restraint’’ and
suggested that Main street
lights, possibly, be
illuminated for only a few
BOROUGH'S CONCERN DEEPENS
Council Visions Development Impact
A deepening concern about
the inevitable involvment
between the borough of
Mount Joy and the
residential development of
The Meadows is being felt by
Borough Council.
At its Monday night
monthly meeting, members
of the council expressed deep
concern and voiced an
urgent need for establishing
a focus upon the approaching
situation.
The Meadows, located at
the east edge of the com-
munity, along the north side
of Road 230, is slated,
ultimately, to include 780
dwelling units.
Already more and more
buildings are rising as
Phase 1 of the project gets
under way.
The beginning phase is to
include 152 units.
The borough’s concern
centers around such matters
as fire protection, police
protection, ambulance
service, water and sewer
services, water run off,
health requirements etc etc.
All have a distinct bearing
upon local facilities.
Although The Meadows is
located outside the borough,
council feels that the local
community will be deeply
involved simply because of
the closeness of the two
units.
To date, council, in its
efforts to have substantive
talks with other govern-
mental groups and the
developer on some of the
matters of concern have not
been especially productive.
Monday night, council felt
that it may need help in
establishing its position and
bringing its possible future
problems to the proper
forum.
It was pointed out that if
Mount Joy community is to
be subjected to a major
impact, which any major
housing development does
have on the immediate
NO HALLOWEEN
PARADE FOR ‘74
IN MOUNT JOY
Again, in 1974, there will be
no Halloween parade in
Mount Joy.
For many years the Lions
Club sponsored the parade of
all kinds of spooks, ghosts
and assorted spirits of the
season, assisted financially
by the community at large.
The parade was dropped
last year and a Fun Night
was substituted.
To be held at the W.L
Beahm school, the 1974 Fun
Night arrangements will be
announced later.
community, it needs at this
time to be involved in the
planning and to be appraised
of methods envisioned to
handle anticipated
problems.
The developer is Arthur
Bloom of Mangolia, N.J.
New Hahn Pumper
Expected Here
Late In Week
Friendship Fire Com-
pany’s new Hahn pumper
truck is excepted one day
yet this week!
Latest word on delivery is
“One day this week, after
Wednesday’!
Originally scheduled to
arrive in Mount Joy several
weeks ago, there were those
who had hoped that it would
be here by Monday of this
week.
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October 30
days.
— Looked gloomily upon
prospects of early resur-
facing of tennis courts at the
berough park. Anticipated
state financial help is being
delayed and estimated costs
are mounting.
— Heard a request for
early attention to the need
for emergency lighting at
Friendship Fire Hall.
— Reaffirmed its position
of allowing the cable tv
company operating in Mount
Joy only a 10 percent rate
increase instead of 31 per-
cent as requested.
— Awarded a contract to
the Hollinger Oil company to
furnishing fuel for five
borough heating systems at
a price of 32.9 cents per
gallon.
— Heard a request from
Baxter Wells that he not be
reappointed to the Zoning
Hearing Board.
— Delayed passing an
amendment to the traffic
code and asked for a re-study
of parking situation near
Mount Joy and Jacob
streets.
— Learned that a survey
is to be made throughout the
.community (questionnaires
in business places) asking
how bus services can be
improved.
— Revealed that a “tree
survey’’ in the borough is
being made and that a
number of trees are found to
be diseased. Some kind of
professional help to deter-
mine the cause was
suggested.
— Purchased a used
backhoe and air compresser
from the H. Meckley com-
pany at a price of $8,000.
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Set Trick or Treat Night
Parents and children! You will want to mark this on the
calendar.
Mayor James A. Gingrich has proclaimed Thursday,
October 30, as Trick or Treat night in Mount Joy.
That also is the night before Halloween. Normal curfew
hours will apply, the Mayor said.
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