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May 14, 1975

The ball descending

Presenting the ball: Don Splain, Gary Ruhl, and Dick Lehman
The ball came from heaven
Maytown parachuters brought the ball for last week's
softball game between the Wagon Wheel Hotel and
Dutch Wonderland. Next Wagon Wheel game Thur,
night in new Maytown park,
Chester Wittell
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and conundrums for con-
temporaries.
Dr. Philip Klein, Penn
State University in his Vide
Historical Review of Berks
County stated: “What a
splendid book of lilting,
homespun, rhythmic verses.
The author has given us a
collection of poems which
he has spaded from the soil
of fertile Lancaster County.
"The fruits of his garden will
give me many pleasant hours
in his library.” Preston A.
Barba, editor-in-chief on
publications of Pennsylvania
German Folklore stated that
Wittell’s book “points a de-
licately shaded yet fully
masculine picture of rural
Lancaster County, the Penn-
sylvania Dutch cornucopia.
The poet seems inspired by
the bucolic muse which
prompted Beethoven’s Pas-
torial Symphony.”
The 150 poems cover
such subjects as Abe Buz-
zard, The Cloisters, The Col-
lithumpian Band, Hexerei,
Pines of Gretna, Womner-
naus and Rothsville. The
work included verse, some
in sonnet form, detailing
historic episodes, social cus-
toms, and idioms indigen-
ous to this region.
Among additional works
are: “The Saga of the Sus-
quehanna,” ‘“Miscelleanous
Poems,” “Songs of the De-
sert,” ‘“‘African Melodies,”
“Winds of Asia,” plus 400
sonnets, some on ancient
subjects.
More than eighty years
old, Dr. Wittell is still using
his God-given talents for the
enjoyment of others.
by Randy Bussard
During the past few weeks
the eighth grade Pennsylva-
niaHistory classes at Beahm
Junior High have been
studying about the founding
of our national government.
One document which was
studied was the Declaration
of Independence. In order to
emphasize the difficulty
which the delegates had in
persuading the people of the
state to support the Declara-
tion, we tried an experiment.
Each student was given the
first paragraph of the Dec- |
laration in the form of a
SECOND INFANTRY DIVI-
SION CHARTER
Lancaster County Veterans
who were former members of
the SECOND (INDIAN
HEAD) INFANTRY DIVI-
SION, will meet to activate a
Lancaster County Charter.
The Division participated in
World War I, World War Il,
and Korea. The Division
recently marked its S000th
day in Korea.
The meeting will be held
on Wednesday, May 2I, at
8P.M. at the AMVETS Post
19, 225 Park Ave., Lancaster,
PARSE MEETING
A meeting of PARSE will
be held at 2 P.M. Thursday,
May 1S, 1975, at St. Matthew
Lutheran Church, 700 Plea-
sure Road, Grandview
Heights, Lancaster, Pa.,
17601
Pleasure Road may be
reached from Route 23, at
end of R.C.A parking lot or
from intersection of Routes
222 and S501 going to or
coming from the Lancaster
Shopping Center, at two gas
stations.
Come out to the meeting
and bring along a retired
friend or more.
SICO BANQUET
Speaking at the awards
basnquet, Sieo President
Robert McGinley said, ‘As
big as Sico is, we still try to
foster a small company
atmosphere. And the fact
that so many employees stay
with us for so many years
seems to indicate we've
succeeded. My deepest
appreciation to each and
every one of you.’
Sico, celebrating its 89th
year of service, is the
nation’s largest Citgo petro-
leum distributor and one of
the top 20 largest petroleum
distributors in the country.
An estimated 465 persons
attended the banquet.
petition. They were asked to
visit the homes of people in
their neighborhood, asking
them to sign their petition.
The students were instructed
not to tell the people that this
was a class project, so as to
prevent people from signing
merely because it was a
school project. The students
were instructed to tell the
people they were members of
the Young People in Politics
Organization. ~ After obtain-
ing the initial response from
the neighborhood people, the
strudents were instructed to
explain to the person that
what he had signed or
refused to sign was the
Declaration of
Independence. As a result of
our experiment we found
that 32 % of the people polled
had signed our petition, with
68 % refusing to sign. The
students also obtained a wide
variety of comments from the
people polled, some of which
were:
‘Oh, my God!’
“What idiot wrote this?’
‘There is nothing wrong
with our government.’
‘Couldn’t work in today’s
society.’
We felt that our experi-
ment proved to be a
meaningful learning exper-
ience for all those people who
became
involved in the

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Thomas Jefferson shocks local citizens
experiment. It gave us an
insight into the struggles of
our forefathers, as we
celebrate the bicentennial of
our country.
This is a copy of the
petition which was given to
the students:
When in the Course of
human events, it becomes
necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands
which have connected them
with another, and assume
among the powers of the
earth, the separate and equal
station to which the Laws of
Nature and of Narure’s God
entitle them, a decent
respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they
should delare the causes
which impel them to separa-
tion. We hold these truths
to be self—evident, that
all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty
and the pursuit of
Happiness. That to secure
these rights, Governments
are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers
from the consent of the
governed. That whenever
any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the Right of the
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People to alter or to abolish
it, and to institute new
Government, laying its
foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in
such form, as to them shall
seem most likely to effect
their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dic-
tate that Governments long
established should not be
changed for light and tran-
sient causes; and accordingly
all experience hath shown
that mankind are more
disposed to suffer, while
evils are sufferable, than to
right themselves by abolish-
ing the forms to which they
are accustomed. But when a
long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invar-
iable the same Object
evinces a design to reduce
them under absolute Des-
potism, it is their right, it is
their duty, to throw off such
Government, and to provide
new Guards for their future
security. Such has been the
patient sufferance of these
Colonies; and such is now the
necessity which constrains
them to alter their former
Systems of Government.
The history of the present
Federal Government is a
history of repeated injuries
and usurpations, all having
in direct object the establish-
ment of an absolute Tyranny
these States.
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