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Mount Joy, Pa.
Ron Nolt
Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin
MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA.
Ron Nolt, 4-H state tractor champ
Ron Nolt, Mount Joy,
R.D. 1, is the new Pennsyl-
vania 4-H tractor driving
champion. Ron won the title
last week at the State Days
competition at Penn State.
The new champion lives
with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Paul G. Nolt, at their
farm on Musser Road.
To win, Ron had to
answer a S0-question exam,
run a safety check on the
"tractor, back a wagon into a
stall, and drive a manure
spreader through an obsta-
cle course.
Ron won the county
tractor driving contest last
Stolzfus and Sauder,
Judy Stolzfus and Jim
Sauder of Mount Joy, along
with Craig Harnish of
Lancaster and Tim Grube of
Elm won the 4-H peultry
judging contest in Penn
State last week.
They had to decide to
keep or cull live chickens,
grade dressed chickens,
Judy Stolzfus
year, but placed 4th in the
state finals. This year he
won first place.
This September, Ron will
take on the best drivers east
of the Mississippi, at the
District Championships in
Richmond, Virginia.
Ron has also raised prize-
winning capons.
Ten Cents
E. Donegal soning law
East Donegal Township’ Ss
Planning Commission, in
conjunction with Huth
Engineers of Lancaster, has
completed a new zoning
ordinance, which is now
available for the public to
read.
The new ordinance im-
plements the Comprehen-
sive Plan which was adopted
last summer, and which de-
signated areas near Mount
Joy and Marietta for
housing, industrial and com-
mercial development, but
preserved the central bulk of
the township for agricultural
use.
Chairman Jefferson
Hartzler of the Planning
Commission has pointed out
that the new zoning map of
the township conforms to
the general outlines of the
map shown in the Plan, but
follows property lines exact-
ly and shows more land set
aside for agriculture than
the Plan map had indicated.
A unique feature of the
new plan, Hartzler says, is
the compromise achieved
between farmers’ wishes to
4-H poultry judges
candle eggs, grade broken
out eggs, grade exterior
shells, and explain the
reasons for their judgments.
In addition, they had to take
a written quiz.
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Jim Sauder
- owns at
E. Donegal Planning Commission at work last winter on new
zoning ordinance
sell lots for housing and the
conservationists’ wish to
preserve farming land. The
new ordinance allows a
farmer to sell one 20,000
square foot lot for housing
for every 25 acres of
farmland he owns.
Another provision of the
new ordinance, noted by
Hartzler, is designed to
prevent water and sewage
problems in low density
residential areas. Lots of
25,000 square feet are
required where no public
water or sewage is availa-
ble. If either public water or
sewage is available without
the other being available,
20,000 square feet is the
minimum lot size. And if
Enlarging
both are at hand, only
15,000 square feet are
required for a house lot.
Other members of the
Commission besides Hartz-
ler are: Donald Betty, Dr.
John Brown, Paul Duval,
Wilbur Fuhrman, David
Garber, Dr. John Hart, Irvin
Musser, and Dale White.
The Commission will be at
the Maytown School begin-
ning at 8 p.m., next
Tuesday, August 26, to
answer questions about the
proposed ordinance.
On Tuesday, September
9, at 8 p.m. in Donegal High
school, the Township Super-
visors will hold a public
hearing on the proposed
ordinance.
MJ Park
hurts Graybill family
Last week Mount Joy's
Borough Council decided to °
lease the house the borough
Manheim and
Barbara Streets to the
Mount Joy Area Historical
Society. The Society will
restore the building and use
it as a museum and public
meeting place.
The Council’s decision
necessitated asking Elva
Walker Graybill and her son
Gary to leave the house
which has been inhabited by
the Graybills for many
years.
Considerable public sym-
pathy has been aroused for
BE the Graybills, as a result of
. the Council’s decision. The
Lancaster newspapers have
run stories describing the
Graybills’ plight.
Borough Manager Joseph
Bateman has expressed his
personal sympathy for the
Graybills, but feels that
administratively the Bo-
rough has no choice but to
ask the Graybills to move.
“The Borough should not be
in the landlord business,”
Bateman said.
Gary Graybill maintains
that the Borough is still in
the landlord business by
leasing to the Historical
Society. He says that his
family has repeatedly of-
fered to buy the property,
only to have the Borough
ignore their offers. Gary's
position is that the Borough
could easily remove itself
from the landlord business
by selling the house to the
Graybills.
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