Hershey News 1955-05-05

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 3 4:Er*'® HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, MAY 5, 1955 No. 18
National Truck Safety Trophy
Won By Chocolate Corporation
Hershey Chocolate Corporation drivers and mainten-ance
men have won top honors in their class in the Ameri-can
Trucking Association's National Truck Safety Contest
for 1954.
The award is in the unlimited mileage class for tank
truck haulers, other than petroleum products. A field of 600
firms were in competition for the award.
Winners in the ATA contest are selected on the basis
of the lowest accident ratio and on the adequacy of their
fleet safety programs.
Figures for 1954 show
the Hershey Chocolate Cor-poration
tank trucks trav-eled
a total of 781,927
miles.
While rolling up that
amount of mileage, the milk
trucks were involved in
eight accidents—with dam-ages
totalling forty-six dol-lars.
The Hershey milk trucks
are on the highways 365 days
a year, regardless of weather
conditions — a fact which re-flects
greater credit on the
drivers, the men who do the
maintenance on the vehicles,
and on the safety program.
The national safety award
is to be presented to the Her-shey
Chocolate Corporation at
Minneapolis, Minnesota,. on
Wednesday, May 11,
Previous Awards
• Winning the safety award
is not ,a new experience for the
Hershey tank truck men.
Back in 1940-41 the choco-late
corporation won first
place among Class B-3 haulers
and in 1950-51 they received
the top award in the Non-
Hazardous Tank Trucks class-ification.
In the contest among state
associations in 1954, the Penn-sylvania
Motor Truck Asso-ciation's
safety program took
first place in the nation.
Milk Truck Drivers
And Maintenance Men
In 1954 AM Contest
Drivers
George Backenstose
W. R. Speck
William Basehore
Oliver Hetrick
Joseph Rakosky.
Edwin Strohm
Charles Landis
J. C. Hostetter
LaRoss Johnson-
Lester Spangler
George A. Bomgardner
H. Heffelfinger •
R. J. Hetrick
Victor Smith
Harold Gingrich
William J. Harper
R. C. Deaven
Wilbur Haas
Daniel Peric
Louis Zeck
Victor. Messner
Earl Yeakley
Maintenance Men
W. R. Strine
Warren Brubaker
Paul Keller
Russell Keller
Neal Seavers
SUNDAY WAS DUTCH DAY in Hershey — Holland Dutch, that is — as upwards of
fifty thousand persons visited the beautiful Hershey Gardens to see the beds of
blooming tulips, the flower for which Holland is famous.
The summer-like sun brought out the thousands of spectators, as well as the
thousands of floral beauties.
The photo above shows a portion of the garden on Sunday, with several of the
new varieties of tulips visible. In the foreground is an array of. the new Queen of
Sheba tulips, a bronze-red variety with yellow edges; at right-center are the New
Look tulips, white with pink tinge and frilled edges; and at the extreme right are
some of the new Balmoral, a clear yellow variety.
Flower lovers and photography enthusiasts continued all week to visit the
gardens on Patt's Hill, where the tulip blooms were making a splash of color in their
setting of green lawn and shrubbery.
The garden is free to the public and is open daily from ten a.m. until eight
Pupils Serenade Spring At Annual Music Festival
PRACTICE SESSION — Preparing for the annual Derry Township Schools' Spring
Music Festival was this group photographed last Friday by the Hershey News
cameraman. Left to right are: Mrs. Robert Maul!, Sixth Grade teacher; Billy Cave,
Sally Campbell, Christine Park and Robert Rath..
The big school music festival was held on the theme of "Spring Time Is Sing
Time" and featured choral groups of elementary and junior high school pupils,
backed by the Hershey High School orchestra. Gay and colorful costumes added to
the Springtime mood of the occasion. A huge and enthusiastic audience attended the
event in the Hershey Community Theatre on Wednesday evening.
One of the big musical events of the year on the local scene, the festival was
directed by W. Paul Campbell, school music supervisore, with Paul G. Fisher and Mrs.
June Moyer in charge of the junior high choruses.
Hershey Scores Heavily
In State Music Events
Hershey students made musical history at the state
contests of the Pennsylvania Forensic and Music League
at York at the end of last week.
The choruses of the two local high schools — Hershey
High School's -Mixed Chorus and the Milton Hershey School
Boys' Chorus — both won superior ratings at the statewide
school music event.
The 100-voice Hershey High championship chorus cap-tured
the individual superior rating for mixed choruses in
Class A, while the Spartan Chorus from the Milton Hershey
School shared "superior" with McKeesport among Class A
boys' choruses.
Hershey High students posted an amazing score of six
superior ratings in nine events entered at the state forensic
program. The summary of Hershey High winners:
High School Chorus, Class A, Mixed — Superior (only
school chorus in the state to be rated alone in the top cate-gory.)
Accompanists are Karl Moyer and Helen Grubb.
Mixed Quartet — Superior — Jean Breneman, Fay
(Continued mi rate Two)
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