GTR GIT ETI VID SPT SITE S05 rTP SPP GT STE STOP SND SPP SN SAN THE MOUNT JOY VOL. 74 NO. 29 BULLETIN MOUNT JOY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER MOUNT JOY, PENNA. DECEMBER 11, 1974 TEN CENTS If the problem of school bus passings is as serious as it is represented — and there is no reason to believe that it is not — some very tough action needs to be taken. Seb It is illegal to pass a standing school bus, as every driver in Pennsylvania knows. +44 Perhaps it is time to organize a parent’s ‘shot gun’ club. What is a shot gun club? It might be something of a volunteer group which would place one or two adults on the buses which are being passed illegally, arm them with notebooks and pencils and simply take license numbers, descrip- tions etc, ; +++ Maybe it would be desirable for the buses to have ‘escorts’ of one or two adults in cars to give pursuit tc violators and take license numbers. +++ If the situation truly is (Continued on Page 8) Ob This aud TOO EARLY TO SAY! Indians Are Scorers But Take Two Losses It’s a little early to make a prediction as to how the 1874- '75 Donegal basketball team will win and lose. But — one thing is emerging as the Indians work their way through their pre-league schedule. That is that there is a lot of scoring potential. Friday night, Dec. 6, at Columbia, the Tribe ran 80 big points. Tuesday of last week, against Red Lion, they hit for 70. Both are respectable totals. But, in both games the opposition did even better. Against the Columbia Tide, the score was 93-80, making a total of 173 points for the evening — quite a scoring banquet. Six players — three on each team — went into double figures, Keiper of Columbia hitting 31. Miller, Mueller and Gallagher were best for Donegal. Red Lion took an 87-70 victory. To date, Kevin Miller, a junior, has been the biggest scoring gun, ringing for 68 points or an average of 17 per game. He had 25 against Columbia. Junior John Fellenbaum has racked up 58 in four That’ by the editor’s wife It’s going to be an in- teresting and blessed Christmas this year at the home of Mrs. Marie Staley, Park Avenue. Mrs. Staley’s twin daughters, Jean and Joan, who are married and have families of their own, are coming home from Alexandria, Va., and California for the holidays. There will be six little grandchildren, all six years old or less. One is six, two of them are four years old, there is a two-year-old and a set of five months-old twins! “Of course I'm used to twins,’ Mrs. Staley said with a smile. “I'm well prepared with cribs and such.” What a Christmas it will be, with wide-eyed wonder on the faces of six little folk around the tree on Christmas morning! The Advent season was properly observed at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Sunday afternoon, when Dr. David Schlosser and Mrs. Carole Bubacz presented an organ-flute recital. The Christmas music was lovely, and was well- received by an appreciative audience. The program was embellished by the quaint, Gothic beauty of the church, with its gleaming, dark, carved woodwork, its arched stained glass windows, its candles and an Advent wreath. Many other notable Christmas programs are being arranged for the holiday season in Mount Joy. Among them are the “Christmas in the Park” program Friday, Dec. 13, at 8 p.m. and the ‘Songs of Christmas’ program Sun- day afternoon, Dec. 15, at 3 p.m., at Trinity Lutheran church, given by the Com- munity Chorus. Miss Phoebe Sentz, Donegal Springs Road, was guest of honor Dec. 4 at a Christmas party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Deibert, Park Street, Elizabethtown. The occasion (Continued on Page 8) games with a best night of 25, against Red Lion. Robert Barto has tallied 39 times with games of 17, 10, 8 and 4, followed by David Schlosser, who has hit for 37, with a 17- point big night against Red Lion. The four have totaled 202 of the Indians’ 288 points thus far. Friday of this week, Donegal goes to Solanco and on Tuesday night, Dec. 17, Warwick comes to the Indians’ court. First Lancaster-Lebanon league games are set for Thursday night, Dec. 19 at Annville against the A-C Little Dutchmen. Maytown Man's Unit is Honored Staff Sergeant Barry Watts, brother of Mrs. Audrey J. Embly of 17 W. Elizabeth St., Maytown, is a member of a unit that recently received the U.S. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award. Sergeant Watts is a flight engineer at Wright- Patterson AFB, Ohio, with the 2750th Air Base Wing that was cited for meritorious service from Feb. 1, 1972 through Jan. 31, 1974. Four squadrons representing more than 5,000 military and civilian members were involved in earning the award. Sergeant Watts is a 1966 graduate of Donegal high school. : Merchants Ask Longer Parking Time for 5° Mount Joy merchants, 15 strong, made a strong appeal Monday night to Borough Council to reconsider the new parking meter fee schedule which allows only 12 minutes of time for five cents. The appeal was voiced by Donald Yingst but the merchants, in effect, were told figuratively, that the request is something like asking to lock the barn now that the horse has been stolen. The parking meter rates have been upped by or- dinance and become ef- fective January 1, 1975. But, council promised the merchants that the situation would be studied and some action taken at a special meeting on Dec. 16. It was explained, however, that preparing ordinances and legal requirements take time and that it is doubtful that relief can come im- mediately. It also was explained that writing, legal work and advertising requirements all cost money. The merchants, armed with a document carrying the names of 23 separate merchants and one with the names of 32 citizens, took no offense at the elimination of the use of a penny as a meter coin, but felt that not enough (Continued on Page 8) Expect Borough Budget To Take $26,000 Hike A $277,150 budget for Mount Joy Borough has been recommended for 1975 and final study and passage is expected Monday night, Dec. 16. The budget, $25,000 above 1974 and $61,000 above 1973, anticipates no new real estate tax. Increased ex- penditures will be met with an increased share of an already existing earned income tax. The tax already is being paid locally but a portion has been taken by the Donegal School District. The only difference ‘is that the borough will now take more, as allowed by law, and the District will take less. Largest areas of budgeted expenses are general government(18.9 percent) police (23.9), highways (24.9), refuse disposal (13.4), fire (6.7). In other business Monday night: —Richard Peifer was sworn in as a new member of council by Mayor James A. Gingrich to replace James Madera. —Frank Eichler was re- named to the Borough Authority to serve from Jan. 1, 1975 to Jan. 1, 1980. —William Eby was elected to serve a two-year term on the Donegal District Authority until Jan. 1, 1977. —A request from police for a stop sign at Detweiler and Concord was received. DR. LANDIS NAMED PRESIDENT J. Edw. Charles Indicates Intention to Retire at End Of "75 From School Board J. Edw. Charles, who for nearly a quarter of a century has served the Donegal School Board as member and numerous terms as president, on Thursday night, Dec. 5, stepped down from the presidency of that body. That step, he added, is the first toward retirement from the Board. As the Board met to hold its annual organization meeting, Charles, an- nounced that he would not be a candidate for re-election to the presidency and added that ‘‘next year, I will have been on this board 24 years. It is time that I step to the sidelines.” He told the Bulletin Thursday night that he does not intend to seek re-election to the school board. And, as the evening developed, he was replaced as head of the board by Dr. William B. Landis, Columbia R1, who will be president for the year 1975. He was named by a vote of 6-2 (1 member absent and 1 member abstaining over Dr. Robert F. Eshleman, who served as president in 1968 and 1969. Charles took a place with other members of the board as Dr. Landis assumed the seat of the chairman and began his tenure. Charles, thus has com- pleted five full years of successive presidency of the Board. Has been elected, over the years, to the head J.EDW. CHARLES position ten times and has been vice-president four different times. He is the senior member of the board in point of service and has been elected more times than any other man now sitting with that body. Charles’ present term of office ends Dec. 31, 1975. A resident of East Donegal township, he lives at 676 W. Market street in Marietta and is president, treasurer and chief executive officer of (Continued on Page 2) DONEGAL NEWS NOTES From School Board DECEMBER 5, 1974 — A citizen appeared at the meeting to ask ‘‘Why does the school buy track, soccer and football shoes for participants but not for basketball?”’ The policy, it was explained, is based on the fact that this footware is special and not useable except in the specific sport. Tennis shoes, sneakers, basketball shoes are worn not only for the sport but by their owners on the streets, at school, etc etc. — District enrollment dropped five during the month of November. — James Metzler was hired for daily duty supervising bus students waiting at the junior high school from 7:40 a.m. until 8 p.m. — The Norlanco Medical Center has appealed in court an increase in tax assessment from $30,600 to $55,450. No decision is expected for several months. — There will be no school cafeteria services on Thursday, Dec. 20. Elementary schools will be dismissed that day at 1:05 p.m. and secondary schools at 12:30 p.m for Christmas vacation. Classes begin again at the regular time on Thur- sday, Jan. 2. — High school plans to present the musical “Camelot” April 4 and 5 and 11 and 12. Expenses will be $730 for royalities and musical score and $140 for orchestration. Admission will be $2.50 for adults and $1 for students on Friday nights only. — In October 65 DHS juniors took a national test. One placed at the 99th percentile, measured on a national scale. Eight were above the 95th percentile.
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