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Girl Scouts
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Front row, 1. tor,, Sherry Eisenhower, Mayor Gingrich,
Betsv Marley. Back row, Kristen Straub,
and Deb Pedrick.
The need for more adult
leaders in Marietta wat
brought out at last week's
proclamation of Girl Scout
Week, March 9 to 15, in
Mayor McDevitt’s home.
Leader Elizabeth Lippold
said that there were no lead:
ers in Marietta for girls in
the 7th to 12th grades who
are interested in scouting.
She is the leader of the
Juniors (4th, 5th, and 6th
graders), and Sandra Rice
is leader of the Brownies
(2nd and 3rd graders), as
sisted by Georgeanne Ro
berts and Carol Barton.
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changing, and a lot of peo-
ple are not aware of how
much it has changed.
Even borough officials
need to know more about
police work today, Chief
Millar believes. He says,
“We need borough officials
to ride with us in the course
of our duties, so they can
get a better understanding
of police and just what they
are spending the taxpayers’
dollars for.”
sWhen Harold Kulman
was a member of Marietta
Borough Council he used to
ride in the cruiser with Mil-
lar. Together, they took
notes on violations of or-
dinances and issued letters
to violators. True, to his
convictions, Millar sent let-
ters noting violations to his
own home. No one, not
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After girls have gradu:
ated from the Juniors there
is no where for them to go
in scouting in Marietta, sim-
ply because there are no
leaders for the older girls.
“The girls are here and
waiting for adults,” said
Mrs. Lippold.
“We need leaders,’
Mayor McDevitt.
Tentative plans were
made at the signing of the
proclamation, also attended
by scouts .Amy Showalter
and Lori Simmons, to initi
ate a drive for adult leaders
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said
even the police chief is a-
bove the law.
Police work is also be-
coming more exacting in de-
fending the rights of the
accused. A policeman has
to keep up with the law.
Chief Millar was strongly
influenced by the late Hen-
ry Rutherford of Marietta,
former district attorney of
Lancaster County, who en-
couraged Millar to take legal
courses at Harrisburg Com-
munity College, the Pennsyl-
vania State Police, and the
F.B.L
Chief Millar predicts that
the job of policeman is be-
coming so professional, that
it won’t be long until all
policemen will be required
to be college graduates.
Millar points out that the
job of being policeman in a
Sharon Marley,

Left to right, Amy Showalter, Lori Simmons, and Elizabeth
Lippold watch Mayor McDevitt sign proclamation.
This year marks the 63rd
anniversary of the Girl
Scouts in the United States.
There were only 18 Girl
Scouts in 1912 in a Sa-
vannah, Ga., troop. Today
there are nearly 4 million
Girl Scouts and their lead-
ers.
In Mount Joy, Mayor
small town is in many ways
more difficult than in a large
city. In a small community
a policeman must be a
jack-of-all-trades; whereas in
a large city policemen
specialize in juvenile work,
investigation, laboratory
analysis, domestic problems,
traific, or different types of
crimes. In a small town
like Marietta, a policeman
has to know about all phases
of police work.
Since some crimes in
Marietta are committed by
people who live elsewhere,
Chief Millar frequently has
to travel far in tracking
down evidence. Hearings
before Magistrate Knorr take
him to Mount Joy. - Necess-
ary trips out of town inter-
fere with his duties in town:
James Gingrich signed a simi-
lar proclamation making
March 9 to 15 Girl Scout
week in that borough.
Leader Sharon Marley
and Scouts Kristen Straub,
Deb Pedrick, Sherry Eisen
hower, and Betsy Marley
witnessed the signing in the
borough hall.
school patrol,checking park-
ing meters, ordinance en-
forcement, and the increas-
ing amount of office work
required by the State.
“Even on my time off,
I’m not really off,” says
Millar. On the “off” day
the Bulletin visited Millar
in his home, Millar had re-
ceived a call at 2:25 in the
morning which had kept
him out until 6:35. The
interview with the Bulletin
ended when Millar was call-
ed out at 11:02 a.m. to go
with officer Bill Carman
(also “off-duty’’) to entice
a raccoon out of an apart-
ment building. Carman gave
the animal a tranquilizer,
and he and Millar took it
out in the country and gave
it it’s freedom.
Mount Joy presses State to act on bridges

Marietta Ave, bridge over Penn Central RR, in Mount Joy

Hole in Marietta Ave, bridge, Corrugated sheet metal under
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week PUC responded with request for information for hear-
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Letters to
Dear Editor:
Has anyone seen Holly?
Holly, a little fox terrier,
white with black ears and a
black spot on her back, left
her home, 121 East Main
St., Mount Joy, on Valen-
tines Day, February 14th.
She had lived there for
seventeen years.
Her mistress is very lone-
ly and misses her. She was
well loved and known
March 12, 1975
Editor
through stories that were
told to school children and
dental patients.
It is indeed a mystery. I
would feel so much better
if 1 only knew what hap-
pened to her.
If anyone has seen her
or found her little body 1
would truly appreciate any
word.
Sincerely,
Jane L. Walker
Police have to know
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They have a saw which
can cut through the steel of
a crumpled car in which a
crash victim is trapped.
They carry in their cruiser
a resuscitator which can save
lives which would be lost
without it. The Mount Joy
police have all received ad-
vanced training in first aid.
To be something of a
lawyer, doctor, scientist,
photographer, mechanic,
sociologist, and family coun-
selor requires a lot of train-
ing.
Mount Joy sends its po-
lice officers to Harrisburg
Community College for
training in the latest meth-
ods of police technology
and practice.
Chief Kline has taken 15
or more advanced courses
in police work from the
F.B.I. and the State Police.
Each member of his force
has taken special courses or"
is scheduled to take special
courses. All of the force
have attended college; some
are college graduates. Full-
time members of the force
are: Bill Reuter, Bill Ro-
berts, Frank Aument, Jr.,
and Dale Good. Part-time
members of the force are:
James Stetler, John Germer,
Barry Stetler, James Grady,
and Gary Gallagher.
There are problems, how-
ever, with having a highly
trained force in a small
town. Police salaries paid
in small towns are lower
than those paid in larger
municipalities. Highly
trained and skilled profess-
ional policemen can com-
mand higher wages than are
customary in small munici-
palities. Good men like
Fred Nestlerode, who used
to be on the Mount Joy
force, leave for more money.
Every town wants the
best police force it can
possibly have. But it takes
money to have an up-to-date
police force.
Police need cool
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not measure his success by
the number of arrests he
makes. Often, as in a fight
between husband and wife,
his appearance is enough
to restore tranquility, at
least for a while.
Chief Shirk likes his work.
Especially challenging is sol-
ving crimes. Frequently it
takes days, sometimes weeks
tracking down the needed
evidence.
It took Chief Shirk three
days recently to gather evi-
dence that the same youths
who burglarized local retail
stores and a place in Man-
heim had also burglarized a
private residence all in the
same night.
He took a tool bar found
in the burglars’ car, a door
from the house, and finally
a small piece of metal wea-
ther stripping from the door
frame to the State Police
ballistics laboratory to prove
that it was the burglars’ tool
bar that pried oven the
house door. That tool bar
had left its peculiar marks
on the weather stripping,
visible only under a micro-
scope.
Not too long ago he
traced a car stolen at River-
moor Village to York, where
it had crashed into a tree.
The thieves were found
through a girl hitch-hiker
they had picked up and
let out of their car just be-
fore the crash.
Chief Shirk came back to
Columbia where the thieves
were reported to live, loca-
ted them, and found out
they had stolen another car
in York after their crash
there in the first stolen car.
In one day they had been
in Baltimore, bought some
liquor and marijuana there,
picked up some girls, wreck-
ed their stolen car, stolen
another car, and returned
to Columbia, where they
were driving around in the
second car.
Chief Shirk solved the
crime in one day, but it was
a long day, running from
8 a.m. when the first stolen
car was reported, until 1:30
a.m. the following morning.
He finds the training he
received last year in a ten-
week course at the State
Police Academy at Hershey
extremely useful in his crime
investigations.
But the job of policing
East Donegal gets more diffi-
cult and time consuming
every day. Chief Shirk used
to know practically every-
one who lived in the town-
ship. That is no longer
true. As more and more
people move into the town-
ship, the job of policing it
grows too.
Chief Shirk and his part-
time force of J. A. Robin-
son, Ronald Johns, and Sam-
uel Johns have their hands
full.

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