Hershey News 1956-06-07

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 4 -07.SIE&-0 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JUNE 7, 1956 No. 23
Subscribers Enthusiastic
About New Telephone Book
Compliments are being re-ceived
by the Hershey Tele-phone
Company on the at-tractive
directory — the first
ever to be published by the
local firm — which has been
distributed to some 3,000 sub-scribers.
The new listings replace
t h e Harrisburg directory,
which was here-to-fore sup-plied
local subscribers. How-ever,
Harrisburg and nearby
listings are also included in
the new book.
From the cover, which has
been printed in a brown ink
to simulate the "Chocolate
Town" description, through
the historical data and handy
reference pages listing the
various units making up the
Hershey companies, it more
than lives up to advance pre-dictions
that it would be one
of the most unique directories
in the United States.
The first three pages are
devoted to a series of pictures
and sketches of interesting
places to visit in the commu-nity.
Then follow four pages
of handy tabulations of the
various Hershey enterprises,
listing locations and telephone
numbers.
A map showing the town
and its many highlights oc-cupies
two pages and a single
page is used to list postal in-formation.
The Hershey phone listings
are placed three columns to
the page, as compared with
four columns in most other
directories.
The handy "Yellow" sec-tion
includes 34 pages of easy
to read "Where to Buy" in-formation,
including not only
Hershey stores and services,
but many others in the cen-tral
Pennsylvania area.
The Harrisburg section in-cludes
listings for Carlisle,
Dauphin, Dillsburg, Duncan-non,
Elizabethville, Halifax,
Hummelstown, Lewisberry,
Marysville, Mechanicsburg,
Millersburg, Palmyra, Shells-ville
and Steelton.
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ADMIRING NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY — The
Hershey Telephone Company's new telephone directory
gets the attention of Hershey officials prior to distri-bution
to local homes and business houses. Left to right
are: Harold M. Weishaupt, assistant comptroller, Her-shey
Estates; Ivan Seltzer, manager of the Telephone
Company, and Kenneth V. Hatt, accountant of the Her-shey
utilities, who assembled the directory.
Learn-To-Swim Program Begins At Community Club
The Hershey Community
Club's Learn-To-Swim Pro-gram
is now under way at
the club swimming pool for
third and fourth grade boys
from Palmyra, Hummelstown
and Hershey.
Free lessons are being given
this week for Palmyra boys,
English Rotary Official
To Be Ladies' Night Speaker
Leslie J. D. Bunker, Howe,
Sussex, England, vice presi-dent,
Rotary International in
Great Britain and Ireland, will
be the speaker at the Ladies'
Night meeting of the Hershey
Rotary Club on Monday, June
11, at 6:30 p. m. in the Com-munity
Dining Room.
Mr. Bunker is senior part-ner
in the law firm of Bunker
and Company in Hove Sus-sex,
England. He was born in
Brighton, England, and was
graduated from the Univer-sity
of London, England.
He has been a member of
the Rotary Club of Hove
since 1933 and is a Past Presi-dent
of that club. He has ser-ved
as district representative
and, for 1955-56, is vice presi-dent
of Rotary International
in Great Britain and Ireland.
He has been director of
studies of the Sussex Board of
Legal Studies since 1926. He
is a local director of the
Phoenix Assurance Company,
a director of the Brighton &
Shoreham Building Society, a
governor of the Brighton,
LESLIE J. D. BUNKER
Hove & Sussex Grammar
School, and vice president of
the Brighton & Hove Operatic
Society. He is a past president
of the Brighton & Hove
Chamber of Commerce and
Trade and past chairman of
the Brighton District Law As-sociation
and the Hove Trus-tee
Savings Bank.
10 to 11 a. m. daily, with
Hummelstown boys receiving
instruction, 11 to noon. These
lessons are for boys who are
not members of the Commu-nity
Club, and will continue
daily through June 15.
Hershey boys will be eli-gible
for instruction the week
beginning Monday, June 11,
9 to 10 a. m. daily. The pro-gram
will conclude June 22.
The program for club mem-bers
will begin Monday, June
11, with lessons scheduled to
start at 1 p. m. These lessons
will continue through June 22.
Pfirman Is Named
Basketball Coach
John Leroy Pfirman has
been named teacher of health
and physical education and
head basketball coach at Mil-ton
Hershey School, succeed-ing
Ned Linta, who resigned
recently.
Harold Hacker, who has
been head junior varsity foot-ball
coach, has been appointed
to assist Behney Buser with
the varsity squad.
Pfirman, a graduate of
Williamsport High School and
Pennsylvania State Univer-sity,
served with the Army
Air Force in World War II.
He served as a bombardier
and armament officer in the
Pacific Theater, where he
flew 42 combat missions.
Five Retiring Workers End
127 Years Of Hershey Service
Five employes of the Hershey Chocolate Corporation
and Hershey Estates with a combined, service record of 127
years were recently placed on the retired list.
Harrison M. Shiffer, of 700 West Cherry Street, Pal-myra,
rounded out 47 years of service with the Hershey
Chocolate Corporation before retiring.
Although his official start-ing
time was in March, 1909,
he also worked for the plant
during his summer vacations
between school terms.
When Shiffer began to
work for the Corporation,
candy was hand molded and
produced in the "knock-out" At Hershey Stadium
room. He was an employe of
the storeroom since 1915,
when he was assigned to take
the first inventory of that de-partment.
He plans to keep busy con-ducting
Red Cross first aid
classes, which he has done
since 1936. He is currently
conducting his fiftieth class.
In the fall he is looking for-ward
to the hunting season.
Shiffer is married to the
former Stella L. Shenk, of
Manheim. They have one
daughter, Erma Mae Koenig,
who resides with them.
Nineteen years of Thomas
A. Basti's 35-year career as a
Chocolate Corporation worker
were spent roasting almonds. dets, the Shrine of the Little
In addition to his service in
the roasting department, Bas
ti worked in the cocoa depart-ment,
thesupply room and the
longitude department. He al-so
was employed in Hershey
Park.
A resident of 201 West Gra-nada
Avenue, he plans to
spend much of his newly
found spare time "fixing up
the yard."
He and his wife, Anna Bas-ti,
have four sons, Gabriel,
Guy, Dominick and Thomas
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32 Leaders Honored At
Luncheon For Girl Scouts
Thirty-two leaders and as-sistant
leaders were guests of
the Hershey Girl Scout Neigh-borhood
Committee at a re-cent
luncheon and card party
at the Hershey Country Club.
Leaders and assistants re-ceiving
10-year service pins
were: Mrs. Clyde Spitler,
Miss Carol Moyer and Miss
Grace McCorkle.
Five-year service pins were
awarded the following: Mrs.
Stanley Carpenter, Mrs. Flor-ence
Tyghe, Mrs. Peter Birn-stiel,
Mrs. Earl Christ, Miss
Doris Snyder, Mrs. Arthur
Strimble and Miss Maxine
Sponougle. the college.
Drum Corps Event
Some of the foremost drum
and bugle corps from Penn-sylvania
and Maryland, will
be on hand for the ninth an-n
u a 1 Hershey Invitation
Drum Corps Competition at
Hershey Stadium on Satur-day
evening, June 9. Rain
date will be Sunday.
Among the senior corps en-tered
are such favorites as
the Reilly Raiders, Pittsburgh
Rockets, the Yankee Rebels
and the popular Westshore-men,
of Wormleysburg.
In addition, the following
junior corps will participate,
the West Reading Police Ca-
Flower, Baltimore; the Sil-verliners
of American Legion
Post, 156, of Baltimore, and
the Liberty Bell Cadets, of
Philadelphia.
The competition is spon-sored
by the Chocolatiers,
senior drum and bugle corps,
of Hershey, and American
Legion Post, 386, and VFW
Post, 3502, of Hershey.
Children under 12, who are
accompanied by their parents,
will be admitted free.
Louise Fetterman
Wins Drama Prize
Phyllis Louise Fetterman,
of 231 Elm Avenue, senior at
Dickinson College, has been
awarded the Gould Memorial
Drama Prize of $100 for the
greatest contribution by a
woman student to the col-lege's
drama program during
the past term.
Dr. William W. Eddl, Dick-inson
president, presented the
prize to Miss Fetterman and
announced that her name will
be engraved upon the Gould
Drama Cup, a silver trophy
in permanent possession of
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