Hershey News 1956-01-26

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 4 043›.® HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JANUARY 26, 1956
Hershey Students
Named To Eastern
All State Band
Doris Hein And Robert
Seltzer Are Selected
For Music Honors
Two young school musicians
will carry the banner of Her-shey
at the Eastern All-State
Band, sponsored by the Penn-sylvania
Music Educators' As-sociation
at Frackville on Feb-ruary
2, 3, and 4.
Dr. W. Paul Campbell, Su-pervisor
of music in the Der-ry
Township Schools, an-nounced
that Doris Hein,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Har-vey
Hein of Hershey Route 2,
and Robert Seltzer, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ivan Seltzer of Her-shey,
have been chosen to
take part in the big Eastern
Division band festival. School
representatives at the event
are selected after appearing
in district bands.
The students will be accom-panied
to Frackville by Her-shey
High School Band Direc-tor
Paul G. Fisher.
Miss Hein is a Senior at
Hershey High and will play
French horn in the Eastern
All-State Band. She plays first
horn in her local school's band
and orchestra.
Seltzer is a Sophomore and,
in addition to his instrumental
work, serves as drum major
for the high school band. He
is first chair clarinet soloist
with the Hershey High band
and orchestra.
The Eastern All-State Band
will hold rehearsals and con-certs
at the Frackville High
School. Guest conductor will
be the famed band director,
Eric Leidzen.
Dr. Campbell of the local
school music program is the
immediate past president of
the Pennsylvania Music Edu-cators'
Association, the spon-soring
organization.
Post Of Township Auditor
Calls For Busy Sessions
DERRY TOWNSHIP AUDITORS S. S. Balsbaugh, Ray
W. Miller and Simon H. Yoder (from left) are busy men
at this time of the year. Their work includes an audit of
the accounts of the Township Supervisors, Treasurer,
Tax Collector, Justices of the Peace, Constables, and
School Board.
Balsbaugh is indeed the dean of township officials,
having served as an auditor for over fifty years. He's a
retired truck farmer and school teacher and principal. He
lives in Swatara Station and is elected from the 2nd Pre-cinct.
Miller, rounding out his second year as an auditor, re-sides
in Stoverdale and is elected from the 1st Precinct.
His years as a supervisory employe with the Department
of Highways represent a fine background for this type
of township service.
A member of the three-man crew since 1949, Yoder
lives in Palmdale, is elected from the 4th Precinct, and
has been a supervisory employe in the Tin Can Depart-ment
at the Chocolate Corporation for many years.
Community Organizations Recognized For Service
GUEST SPEAKER here last week as the Hershey Rotary Club paid tribute to organ-izations
and individuals for their conspicuous community service during the past year
was Pennsylvania State Police Lieutenant T. P. Cahalan (center in photo). With
Lt. Cahalan are the Rotarians who arranged the salute to service: From left — E.
W. Meyers, committee chairman; Club President Paul 0. Curry; (Lt. Cahalan) ;
and committee members Vincent Pronto and George Bartels.
The wide-scope tribute was paid to these organizations via their representatives:
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Fire Company, Ambulance Corps, Ground Observer
Corps, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Lions' Club, Optimist Club, Busi-ness
and Professional Women's Club, School Directors, Parent-Teacher Association,
administrative staffs of the Derry Township Schools and Milton Hershey School, State
Police, Parents' Music Association, Hershey Ministerium. Among the guests was Rich-ard
T. Yingling, physical director at the Community Club, who was awarded the
Lions' Club's annual citation for community service.
The Good Age
Work Goes On
At Eighty
Several Sundays back, mem-bers
of The Evangelical Lu-theran
Church of the Holy
Trinity were honored by hav-ing
Doctors E. Stanley Bill-heimer
and M. R. Hamsher,
both of whom are in their
eighties and retired for some
years, conduct the Commun-ion
Service.
Dr. Billheimer, who is re-tired
from Palm Lutheran
Church in Palmyra, was Sup-ply
Pastor at Holy Trinity in
1949, and has assisted at
Communion Services since
that time. He resides in Pal-myra.
On the other hand, Dr.
Hamsher, who is now Supply
Pastor for Holy Trinity, is
the past president of the
large Central Pennsylvania
Synod, and makes his home
in the Gettysburg area.
Both are extremely active.
Dr. Hamsher, 'for instance,
drives the 55 miles from Get-tysburg
each Sunday morn-ing
for an eight o'clock serv-ice.
He follows that with chil-dren's
chapel and then deliv-ers
a different sermon at the
10:30 service. He arises each
Sunday morning at five
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No. 4
School Patrol
Boys Honored
For Heroism
Two South Hanover
lads Are Cited By
Hershey Optimists
Two eleven-year-old mem-bers
of the South Hanover
Township School Safety Pa-trol
were honored last night
(Wednesday) by the Hershey
Optimist Club "for heroism
and outstanding service in
preventing possible injury or
death to a fellow student."
Receiving the Optimist
Club's first Good Citizenship
Awards of this year's program
were Gerald J. Brinser, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Brinser,
and Joseph E. Hosler, Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E.
Hosler. Both recipients of the
award live at Hummelstown
Route 2 and are Sixth Grade
students at the South Hanover
Township School.
Presentation of their certi-ficates
and reading of special
citations were handled by J.
William Abram, chairman of
the Optimists' Boys' Work
Committee. The program was
conducted in the Community
Dining Room with Optimist
President Thural V. Brehm in
charge of the meeting.
Recommendation for the
awards was made by Mrs. Eva
Groninger, teacher and Safety
Patrol advisor at the South
Hanover Township School.
Mrs. Groninger also took part
in the award ceremony by pin-ning
inscribed gold medals on
the boys.
The students were honored
for their quick and intelligent
action while on Safety Patrol
duty last October 24. When a
fellow student darted onto the
highway in the path of an ap-proaching
automobile, the
Hosler boy quickly pulled him
to safety while the Brinser
lad rushed to flag down the
motorist. The fast action by
the Patrol boys, without re-gard
for their own safety, is
credited with the prevention
of what could have been a
serious accident.
Another highlight of the
special program was a talk by
Optimist Charles Bikle,
Science and Physics instructor
at the Milton Hershey School,
on his trip to Bangkok, Thai-land,
where he was a member
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