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Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin
MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA.
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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
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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.