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THE GETTYSBURG TIMES, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1990 5A Mount Joy group keeping guard up By MARSHALL D. BLACK Times Staff Writer While qvrietly expressing their apparent victory in preventing a waste transfer station from being built in Mount Joy Township, members of a citizens group said Thursday night that they will continue to "keep their guard up." Jerry Bennett, a member of the Mount Joy Citizens Group, which Trooper (From page 1A) of last year. "I came in and everybody was pretty much leaving and I was wondering what was going on," he said. One week after the two-day riots at the Cumberland County prison, Trooper Komaski was one of many state police troopers stationed at the facility to make sure that the inmates stayed in their cells. On April 23, about 20 prisoners at the facility were involved in a four-hour disturbance in which they allegedly removed and smashed a porcelain toilet from a wall and then began throwing the pieces, at guards.

The disturbance came at a time when Gov. Bobert P. Casey has ordered that some state police troopers currently on duty at the prison be reduced. In reflecting on this, Trooper Kornaski, who has been at the facility at least four times since the riots, said that he doesn't think this is a good time to reduce the state police force. "With what has happened, I from the beginning strongly-challenged the plans for the transfer station, told about 80 Adams County residents, including state and county officials in Gettysburg, Itfs done and we won." A man in the back of the community room at the Adams County National Bank quickly shouted back, "Did you really win?" Mr.

Bennett then told the residents that he and the group both think it is pretty evident that now is not a good time," he said. Trooper Kornaski said that the criminal's attitudes toward crime has changed since he first joined the force. "When I came on the job 18 year ago, if someone were sneaking around a building thinking about breaking in and you drove by in a patrol car, they took off," he said. Today, the criminal walks around the building until you drive away. Then they hit the building," Trooper Kornaski said.

He said that in general, he finds that attitudes toward people have changed over the years for the worst. "Years ago, people had a lot more respect for people and for people's property. Why that attitude has changed I don't know," Trooper Kornaski said. On leaving the Gettysburg barracks, Trooper Kornaski said that his fellow colleagues that he will be leaving have been like family to him and that he will miss them very much. Candidates (From page 1A) sign during the program.

Aldona Stremmel is the daughter of Nevin and Elaine Stremmel of Pemberton Drive, East Berlin. She plans to attend Brown University and study psy- chology. She's a member of the French Club, pit band and honor roll. A Bermudian Springs High School junior, she lists Jim Morrison and Katarina Witt among her favorite persons of the past and present. She'll present a dramatic reading during the program.

feel that the challenge against Waste Management of North America to prevent the waste station from coming into Mount Joy Township "is probably a temporary victory." State Rep. Kenneth J. Cole, D- Orrtanna, praised the group for their efforts against the waste station project, but said that Adams County is going to have to "bite the bullet" when it comes to deciding where to place an industrial park for the county. County Commissioner Cathy Cowan also attended the meeting as did Richard H. Schmoyer, director of the development for the county and John I.

Callenbach, director of planning for the county. On April 19, in a surprise move, Waste Management of North America announced that it was cancelling plans to build the proposed transfer station on the 15-acre site angled between Barlow-Two Taverns Road and Orphanage Road in the township. But thus far, the waste giant has not officially withdrawn the permit application to build the waste station from the state Department of environmental Resources in Hamsburg. Betty Savidge, a member of the Mount Joy group said Thursday that she spoke with a DER official Thursday who told her that Waste Management has been in touch with the state agency and that they are planning to withdraw the application in about a week. Mr.

Bennett said after the meeting that he expects that the application will probably be withdrawn in about two weeks. This has been typical of them (Waste Management) to wait until the very last minute to do something. "Ifs inconceivable to me that they would commit themselves to the county commissioners and everything else and that they weren't going to pull out." They have a reputation of being good losers. When they say they are going to pull out they pull out," Mr Bennett added. TVe consideritaremotepossibil- Givil War By RICHARD LEMMERS Park Ranger Although the currentmotion pic- is helping to increase national awareness of the military role played by Black Americans in the Civil War, it only touches on a small part of the whole story.

The film depicts the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, a Union regiment officered by Whites but comprised mainly of enlisted Blacks from across the war-torn country- Some of the 54th's men -were former slaves, but most were free Blacks from northern cities. In fact, some of the unifs rank and file hailed from our neighboring Pennsylvania towns of Carlisle, Chambersburg, and Shippensburg. The 54th Massachusetts proved itself as a fighting unit during the assault on Fort Wagner, S.C., on July 18, 1863. In that fight it lost 272 out of 650 men, including its Colonel, Robert Gould Shaw Sergeant William Carney of the 54th, who kept the regiment's national flag from falling into enemy hands, was one of 21 Blacks to receive the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Civil War. An estimated 180,000 Blacks served in nearly 166 regiments of the federal armies Another 29,000 served in the U.S.

Navy. By 1865 Blacks made up twelve percent of all land forces. They fought in 449 engagements and lost approximately 33,000 dead in service, 2,751 being killed in action. Their reputation as fightingmen drew attention from President Lincoln. One of the many obstacles Black soldiers faced in the Civil War was an unequal pay system in a segregated army.

The men of the 54th Massachusetts chose to serve their country without pay rather than accept the lower pay offered to Negro troops. The army thought Black privates should receive $10 a month instead of the $13 a month given to White troops Congress finally corrected this injustice in June, 1964, by granting equal pay. Black soldiers also faced nsks and dangers that White troops did not have to worry about. If caught, a Black soldier, even if he had been free all his life, could be either shot or sent into slavery. In a few battles, such as Fort Pillow, Tennessee, there massacres of surrendered Negro troops.

Cunously, in a in which abolition of slavery and freedom for Blacks was at stake, there were numbers of Blacks who wore Confederate gray. These were not volunteers, but slaves. Several accounts have surfaced of fully uniformed and armed Blacks fighting for the South The first case of a Black actually fighting in a Civil War land battle might be that of James Jefferson, a slave whose owner joined the 4th Alabama, C.S-A. James was armed with a firearm when he and his master went into action at 1st Manassas in 1861. Toward the end of the war several Confederate generals, including Patrick Cleburne and Robert E.

Lee, proposed used armed Blacks as Southern troops. At first President Davis suppressed and opposed such a notion. But in March, 1865, the Confederate congress calledibr- the military organization of slaves to defend the south. No freedom was guaranteed and only a few companies formed. In the Battle of Gettysburg the Union Army of the Potomac had no organized military units comprised of Black soldiers.

However, Blacks served in non-combantant roles, such as teamsters for supply wagons and ambulances. They also helped care for the and bury the dead. Several are depicted in the Gettysburg Cyclorama painnng. Iromcally, there is one reported instance of Blacks in the rebel army at Gettysburg. Three weeks afterwards a northern newspaper, The New York Herald, printing additional stories on the battle, had this to the rebel prisoners who were marched through Gettysburg there'were observed seven ne- groes in uniform and fully ac- coutred as soldiers." Although no monuments commemorate Black fighting units here at Gettysburg, for there were none, among the Civil War dead in the National Cemetery is the grav of Henry Gooden, 127th U.S.

colored Infantry, from Carlisle. He TV as a veteran of the Petersburg Siege and the Action at Chaffin's Farm. Heis the only black soldier of the Civil War known to be buried here. And, Eli George Biddle, the last surviving veteran of the 54th Massachusetts, was present at the 75th Gettysburg reunion in 1938, even though his unit did not fight here. It was men like these who gave our nation a new birth of freedom.

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After all, they still own the land- They could put a sale sign up and charge a million dollars for the property and three years later they could be back," he said. "One of the reasons why we are going to stay together as a group is to be a watchdog. 3 Mr. Bennett said. Meanwhile, the Mount Joy Township supervisors have begun the two-yearprocess of trying to implement zoning for their township.

He told the gathering that the group basically beat Waste Management of North America not in the courtroom, but in the public arena. They couldn't challenge us in the public arena. They don't like publicity," he said. Dianne Beemer, an attorney and community leader in the Scranton area in Lackawanna County was a consultant for the Mount Joy group from the beginning when the transfer station issue first became public last August. Mrs.

Beemer told the audience Thursday night that "Scranton is fast becoming a waste dump" and she said that "people power" is a very strong tool in fighting to shutdown or to prevent transfer stations andlandfillsfrom coming into a communiiy. She said that within a five-mile radius around the Scranton area, there are several landfills, a gigantic car junkyard dubbed the "eighth wonder of the world" by Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, lead smelters and a waste transfer station which until recently had been receiving garbage from New York and New Jersey- She said that babies in large numbers are being born badly deformed, while others are dying because of the lead poisoning of the land around the smelting plants. "And a portion of the Susquehanna River has turned completely orange and I fear for the people down south who get their drinking water from the Susquehanna River," she added. Hospitals Gettysburg Hospital Visiting hours are from 11 a.m. to 8 pan.

Admissions Richard Baumgardner, 1 Corey Lane, New Oxford. Mrs. Allan Blue, Bendersville. Tara M. Frednkis, 27 Thunder Trail, Fairfield.

Mrs. Michael Myers, 30 Loop Road, Biglerville. Mrs. Gary Showers 531 Pine Grove Furnace Road, Aspers. Dara Hockensmith, 312 E.

Middle Gettysburg. Discharges Mrs. Daniel Mclntyre and son, 67 Grouse Park, Littlestown. James Schulz, 2470 Pumping Station Road, Fairfield. Mrs.

Robert E. Scott, 850 Mount Hope Road, Fairfield. Hanover Hospital Visiting hours are from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.

Admissions Mrs. Glenn Foster, Hanover. Mrs. Fred J. Kane, Hanover.

Mrs. Emory E. Lockner Hanover. Mrs. William Martin, Hanover.

Kenneth Oaster, Hanover. Mrs Robert C. Horan, Hanover. Stephanie A. Fogle, Hanover.

William J. Groft, New Oxford. Alice L. Picard, Hanover. Bryan M.

Zeigler, Hanover- Andrew L. Bucher, Littlestown. Michele c. Graves, Shrewsbury. Craig D.

Jenkins, Taneytown, Md. Charles E. Lerew, Hanover. Julie L. Mummert, Hanover.

Sondra J. Powers, Spring Grove. Penelope C. Smith, Hanover Roy E. Kress, Hanover.

Charles H. Wolf, New Oxford. Nadine M. Hockensmith, New Oxford. Discharges Carolyn V.

Davidson, Manchester, Md. Mrs. Harold E. Friedline and baby boy, Hanover. Charles F- French New Oxford.

Mrs. Richard Laughman, MiD- ers, Md. Mrs. Elwood V. Lentz, Spring Grove.

Mrs. Emory R. Lockner Hanover- Kenneth Oaster, Hanover. Samuel W. Gross, Hanover.

Carlisle Hospital Admissions Richard A. Taylor, Aspers. Timothy J. Kitzman, Mt. Holly Springs.

Larry E. Fisher, Mt. Holly Springs. Kimberly A. Zimmerman, Mt.

Holly Springs. Mrs. Victor Rourke, Mt. Holly Springs. Melvin L.

Gelsinger, Gardners- Discharges Lloyd S. Stull, Gardners. Richard A. Taylor, Aspers. Mrs.

Mark Grain and baby boy, Wellsville. Mrs. Carl Hess and baby boy, Gettysburg. George A. Paxton, Gardners.

Larry E. Fisher, Mt. Holly Springs. Timothy J. Hotzman, Mt.

Holly Springs. Efmberly A. Zimmerman, Mt. Holly Springs. Births Gettysburg Mr.

and Mrs. Michael (Connie J. Naugle) Nyers, 30 Loop Road, Biglerville, a son on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs.

Gary Showers Jr. (Laura M. Lanza) 531 Pine Grove Furnace Road, a son on Thursday. Margaret Redding, 11 E. Patrick Frederick, a son on Wednesday.

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