75 S€ S€ m y n. Io at as P, ze lo ~ h 1. Tr 1t e ch SUSQUEHANNA BULLETIN Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA. \ 3 QA) 73 students on the job Randy Richards and Doug White in the maintenance shop of Lancashire Hall, Neffsville. The Mount Joy Vo-Tech School is carrying out a program that directly re- lates school to the real world of work. It is called Coop- erative Vocational Educa- tion and is under the direc- tion of Abram Weidman. Students in their final year at Vo-Tech may parti- cipate in the program if they meet the necessary qualifi- cations. They spend one- half of each school day at the school and the other half actually working on a job in local industry where they can put the skills they have been learning to actual use at apprentice pay. The program has been ( Continued on page 3) Raymond Boyer cuts meat at Stehman’s IGA in Florin. Little competition in primary With eleven candidates out for four positions on the Donegal School Board, the Primary Election on Tuesday, May 20, will be important and crucial. But unless something very unusual happens and voters write in names not appear- ing on the ballots, the elec- tion will not have any ef- fect on who holds municipal offices next year. In fact, unless the un- heard of happens and, vo- ters in large numbers write in names of candidates - not even the general election in November will have any ef- fect on who holds some offices next year. In East Donegal Town- ship only Lloyd H. Fuhr- man, incumbent, is running for the Republican nomina- tion for supervisor. No one is running for the Demo- cratic nomination. In Mount Joy incum- bents Omar Groff and Charles W. Ricedorf are running for the Republican nominations to two seats on the Borough Council from the East Ward. Only one Democrat, H. B. Gut- shall is running for a Demo- cratic nomination to one of two available seats. Harold K. Keller is runn- ing unopposed in the West Ward for the Republican nomination to Council. No Democrat is trying in the West Ward. In Florin George Fitzkee is running unopposed for the Republican nomination. There are no Democrats from Florin on the ballot. In Marietta there are four Republicans and four Demo- PRIMARY BALLOT REPUBLICANS Vote for One John Smith DEMOCRATS Vote for One crats trying for the four available seats on the Bor- ough Council. The Repub- licans are: incumbent James R. Howell, Robert E. Long, Oliver C. Overlander II, and David L. White. The Demo- crats are: Oliver C. Cohen, John W. Hinkle, W. H. Mad- sen, and James C. Smith. Thus, unless there are write-ins, neither the pri- mary election on May 20, nor the general election in November will have any ef- fect on the supervisorship of East Donegal Township. No one is opposing Lloyd Fuhr- man for the Republican nomination and no one is trying for a Democratic nomination. In Mount Joy the num- ber of Republican candi- dates and the number of offices to be filled on the Council, four, is the same. There is only one Demo- (Continued on page 2) Ten Cents } Oldest bathtub in Mount Joy, in Gingrich’ S Hout on East Donegal Street Gingrichs’ restoration In the fall of 1971 Paul R. and Vera Gingrich pur- chased at public sale an old house on East Donegal Street in Mount Joy that was liter- ally falling down. An ex- plosion on bedrock on the nearby railroad had under- mined the foundations of the house many years be- fore; the front corner of the house had sunk into the ground nine inches. A lot of people assumed that the Gingrich’s would raze the house and sell the property for a profit. They didn’t know the Gingrich’s very well. Paul is a former Eastern racing car champion and builder of racing car engines who is now a sales representative for The Sico Company in Mount Joy. Vera teaches English at Donegal High School. Both are histori- cally minded and head Mount Joy’s Bicentennial Committee. With the help of Vera's Gingrich House brother, Karl Haines, and their brother-in-law, Charles Maurer, the Gingrichs pain- stakingly set to work to re- store the old broken-down house, once the only house in its area, to its original simple beauty. They took the whole sunken front corner of the house down, brick by brick, and then after re-pouring new foundations, put it up again, brick by brick. Everything in the house, which, fortunately, had never been remodeled, is being reconstructed as it was in the mid-1800’s. The house contains a bathtub with a zinc lining, reputed to be the oldest in Mount Joy. The Gingrichs plan to make the zinc glisten again, but they do not plan to take baths in the long tub. They hope to have their house completely restored in 1976, to help celebrate the Bicentennial.
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