Susquehanna times & the Mount Joy bulletin. (Marietta, Pa.) 1975-1975, October 22, 1975, Image 12

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Page 12—SUSQUEHANNA BULLETIN
Florin Ward
[1 seat]
Democrat

AN
JOHN E. MATONEY
Mr. Matoney, worked as a
bricklayer for over 20 years.
He is a real estate salesman
and owner of apartment
buildings in Mount Joy and
Elizabethtown.
He was educated at the
Patton Masonic School in
Elizabethtown and served in
World War II and Korean
War in the Marine Corps.
Mr. Matoney is a member
of the Democratic County
Committee, executive di-
rector of Pennsylvania Ap-
prenticeship and Training,
secretary of the Apprentice-
ship and Training Council,
member of the educational
board for Lewisburg Federal
Penitentiary, and of the
Contract Advisory Board of
the Pennsylvania Human
Relations Committee.
Mr. Matoney pledges that
if elected he will work hard
and give dedicated service
in the best interests of all
the people of Mount Joy.
He is opposed to a new
borough ordinance requir-
ing continued payment for
water and sewage service
for vacant apartments. He
feels the law imposes a
hardship on apartment
dwellers, mostly retired
people or ‘‘young persons
just getting started.”
Mr. Matoney understands
the questions and concerns
of citizens opposed to the
 
commercial development of
the corner lot at Angle
Street and Donegal Springs
Road. But he feels the
borough Council dealt un-
fairly with the firm that
wanted to develop the lot,
by requiring expensive plan-
ning and surveys, without
ever telling the developer
that ‘his plan may not be
approved.”
Matoney also feels that
the recent ordinance which
would fine landlords up to
$300 for not reporting their
tenants to the government
harms ‘‘good relationship
with the business communi-
ty’ and is ‘‘possible an
illegal act. If requested all
landlords would gladly coop-
erate in surveying the
community for tax assess-
ment, which has tradition-
ally been the responsibility
of the government.”
Republican


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M. GEORGE FITZKEE
Biographical Information
M. George Fitzkee, 615
Donegal Springs Road,
Mount Joy, is 46 and was
born in Rapho Township. He
is a graduate of Mount Joy
High School and Pennsylva-
nia State University, from
which he received a degree
in business administration.


Fitzkee served four years
with the United States Air
Force in Japan and Korea.
He is a past president of
the Florin Lions Club and
also of the board of directors
of the Mount Joy Library. He
is a member of Trinity
Lutheran Church, Mount
Joy.
For the past IS years
Fitzkee has been employed
as a computer salesman with
Sperry Univac.
Fitzkee and his wife Ann
have three children:George-
anne, Deborah, and Peter.
Fitzkee’s Statement
Since I returned to Mount
Joy in 1960, 1 have watched
Mount Joy grow in popula-
tion, new industry, and in
area. Due to the slow action
of Mount Joy developing a
good zoning and growth plan
for the borough, undesirable
situations developed from
this growth which can not
now be easily corrected.
Although a great deal has
been done to correct these
situations By borough coun-
cil, a lot of work remains to
be done.
Other problems facing
Mount Joy which will require
a strong council to resolve
without a great expenditure
of taxpayers’ dollars, are
remedying the deplorable
conditions of the Penn
Central Railroad bridges in
Mount Joy and providing
sewerage facilities to sec-
tions of the Florin Ward.
If I am elected to council in
November, I will be attentive
to the needs of the people
and will work to make Mount
Joy a better place in which to
live.
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Telephone 653-4650

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Duck hunters should cooperate
by J. L. BIESECKER
Grasspatches and small
islands had recently been
the scene of increasing
activity in preparation for
last week’s opening of duck
season. Scrap bits of
lumber, driftwood, new
lumber, burlap, chicken
wire, and grass had been
carried about the river and
formed into duck blinds.
Our recent flood carried
away most of the earlier
weeks’ efforts, but the
tenacious duck hunters had
been out rebuilding the
blinds that they hoped
would assure successful
hunting. |
Duck blinds range from
the simplest structure of
chicken wire and grass, to
the wind proof, house-like
structures that rise above
the high water mark. Like
their quarry, duck hunters
return year after year to the
same spot on the river. A
few old-timers have erected
their blind and spread their
decoys on the same spot for
40 or more years. One
should not be suprised to
find that like a nesting duck,
hunters scrambled back
again to rebuild after Eloise
destroyed their earlier work.
Some people ask if the
pleasure of duck hunting is
worth all the effort involved.
In fact, many wonder what
pleasure can exist in getting
out of a warm comfortable
bed long before daylight to
"go out on the river to sit in a
cramped, wet, wind swept
blind. The pleasures and
motivations of this sport are
| greater and more varied
= than the uninitiated realize.
Duck and hunter are
called each fall by some
ancient voice that triggers a
response which brings them
together in the timeless
ritual of hunting. For man
this results in eager prepar-
ation of blinds on warm fall
afternoons as the river hums
by, retelling of past shared
experiences and developing
new experiences with hunt-


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ing partners. Also involved
with the annual push onto
the river are the sports-
man’s developing aware-
ness and increasing know-
ledge about ducks and
expanding skills of hunting.
Pleasant memories stir
about and remind us that
the effort is small compared
to the gain. That misty
oe , :
morning when a flight of
Canada geese broke out of
the low hanging clouds,
cupped their wings and
cautiously settled among the
decoys; the big Chesapeake
joyfully leaping from his
perch, shattering the scum
ice, bodly retreiving the last
duck of the season and many
other experiences are a part
of those pleasant memories,
Intruding into those mem-
ories are present realities
that warn of change, diffi-
culties and possible dan-
gers. Each year the river
becomes more crowded as
increased numbers get in-
volved in duck hunting.
These new comers often
build blinds on or too near a
sight that, by tradition,
belongs to another hunter.
At times the novice spreads
his decoys in a manner that
warns off ducks rather than
pulling them in. Through
these and other means, we
find hunters displaying a
lack of respect for or
knowledge of the unwritten
system of rules that have
developed through the
years.
Man being a territorial
animal, resents others in-
truding into an area that he
sees as belonging to him.
Some men remember the.
duck season long past when
they had wide areas of the
river to themselves. This is
no longer possible. In-
creased amounts of leisure
time, greater affluence, and
a growing population have
contributed to the numbers
of hunters on the river.
A decreasing area, smal-

 
 
 

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ler bag limits and increased
numbers of people dictate
the need for increased
cooperation among those
who hunt ducks. We need
to cooperate and police our
ranks to protect the sport.
This gathering together
should be for a effort of
inclusion and sharing, not
one of exclusion and limit-
ing, as some organizations
do. We have already
cooperated on a large scale
in formal organizations such
as Ducks Unlimited, and in
so doing have saved several
million acres of duck nesting
areas from the land develo-
pers brand of progress.
This has helped assure the
future of ducks.
However, we also need
the small informal groups
who can cooperate through
sharing the river and it’s
limited resources. Exclu-
sion, greedy squabbling and
the like will reduce the
number of hunters on the
river and may increase the
number of ducks in your
bag, but it will cheat others
of sharing the experience
and decrcase the number of
people supporting your
sport. In the long range this
decreasing support will aid
the destruction of hunting.
We need many interested
duck hunters if we are to
stop the draining of
swamps, and pollution of
bays, and in other ways
fight the forces that would
destroy ducks and duck
hunting.
If we do not cooperate,
share and work together,
fading memories will, each
fall, rekindle a call that will
not be answered. We will
be like the barn yard
Mallard with pinioned
wings, who stirs about when
his wild brothers fly past
each fall. The call will be
there, stirred by faint
recolletions and the wings
will be impotently lifted,
while the fat domestic
Peking duck looks on,
uncomprehending.
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