Hershey News 1956-01-12

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 4 o •)ErTb).(--) HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JANUARY 12, 1956 NO. 2
Hershey Plant Tour
Gains In Popularity
Record Flow Of Nearly 150,000 Per-sons
Visited Factory During 1955
Many Were School Students
The guided tours for visitors at the Hershey Chocolate
Corporation plant, gaining steadily in popularity over the
years, pushed to a new high mark in the number of visitors
during 1955, the year's records show.
During the calendar year just ended, no less than 149,-
543 persons were escorted through the plant and were shown
the actual manufacturing and processing of chocolate and
chocolate products.
In 1955, the number of visi-tors
increased by 22,782 over
the previous record establish-ed
in 1954. And the 1955 fig-ure
was 43,644 higher than
the number of visitors logged
two years ago.
This ever-growing interest
in the world's foremost choc-olate
manufacturing plant is
shared by p e rs o n s from
throughout the nation, from
many foreign countries, and
from many walks of life.
Buses bring entire classes
of school pupils to the plant
for the students' Spring and
Fall field trips, and in many
instances, groups of Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts or Camp-fire
Girls make the trip to
Hershey % and visit the plant.
Scout and school groups often
- —are 'Veiwratrect -Tor s
achievement by their leaders
in this manner
Adult professional, busi-ness
and industrial groups,
individual visitors and family
units are among the interest-ed
guests throughout the
year. Peak of the plant visita-tions
comes each August dur-ing
the big Pennsylvania
Dutch Days celebration in
Hershey. Last August set a
new high for an individual
month when 45,742 persons
passed through the Visitors'
Lobby.
The mont h-by-month
figures for 1955 as com-piled
by Mrs. Verna Stoltz,
Visitors' Department hos-tess:
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
2,335
1,253
2,262
6,408
17,906
30,634
18,472
45,742
12,035
7,684
3,182
1,630
As the figures show, the
warm-weather months with
their summer vacationers are
the busiest for the young
ladies who usher the visitors
through the plant. "Busy sea-son"
for the plant tour ser-vice
runs from the beginning
of May through September.
Visitors are escorted on the
plant tours by attractive,
courteous young women, with
the tour taking approximately
forty-five minutes. The Vis-itors'
Department functions
daily except Saturdays, Sun-days
and holidays and, of
course is closed during the
annual plant vacation.
Four Hundred Thirty-Nine Infants Were
Hershey Hospital Arrivals During 1955
1956
Maid
Of
Cotton
PATRICIA ANNE COWDEN, lovely daughter of a Her-shey
Chocolate Corporation sales executive in Raleigh,
N. C., will reign over the cotton industry this year as
"1956 Maid of Cotton." The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
M. J. Cowden, "Pat" is a 21-year-old private secretary to
a Raleigh bank executive. Her father is Division Man-ager
for the Hershey Chocolate Corporation at Raleigh.
As "Maid of Cotton," the green-eyed,-brunette Miss
Cowden will make her official appearances in street
clothes and evening dresses, all made of cotton, during
a six-month trip that will take her to cities all over the
United States, Europe, Canada and South America. The
"Maid of Cotton" crown carries significant honors as the
"Maids" represent the highest ideals in beauty and char-acter
of young American womanhood.
Miss Cowden's father has been with the Hershey
Chocolate Corporation since 1933 and has been a divi-sion
manager 'since August 1949. (Photo and story
courtesy of United Press)
$10,000 Given To Fire Co.
CHOCOLATE MILK DRINK is poured for a young visitor, Veronica Frederick of
Blossburg-, Pa., after the youngster toured the Hershey Chocolate plant on Monday.
Visitors' Department staff members in photo (1. to r.) : Mrs. Verna Stoltz, hostess;
Miss Sylvia Funglii, Mrs. Dorothy Saltier, Miss Gloria De La Nova' and Mrs. Pru-dence
Melly.
A donation of ten thousand
dollars started the New Year
right for the Hershey Volun-teer
Fire Company.
The gift was donated by the
Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion
and Hershey Estates,
fire company officials an-nounced.
Other news from the fire-fighters
included the report
that the new custom-built ap-paratus
is expected to be de-livered
within the next few
weeks. Meanwhile, a repre-
(Connined on Pane Four)
Five Pairs Of Twins
Among Year's Babies;
July Busiest Month
A total of four hundred and
thirty-nine babies made their
debuts at Hershey Hospital
during 1955, hospital officials
reported this week. Five pairs
of twins appeared on the scene
among the 233 boys and 206
girls, the report shows.
The stork was not quite as
busy here during 1955 as in
the previous year of 1954
when he brought 484 little
bundles of joy to the local
hospital.
Last February, it waA noted,
was a comparatively quiet
period in the hospital nursery,
with only twenty new arrivals
during the short month. But
nurses and new mothers were
kept busy during last July
when forty-eight babies ar-rived.
'
The total month-by-month
arrivals during 1955:
January 40; February 20;
March 25; April 30; May 44;
June 34; July 48; August 38;
September 42; October 39;
November 36; and December
43.
We have no report of lost
storks, but there was no New
Year's Day baby for 1956, at
Hershey Hospital.
-One- clay - later Jjhrea.babiea
greeted the New Year. Births
coming within the Yule sea-son
are as follows: Christian
and Pearl Weaver) Long, Pal-myra
Route 1, a boy, 30 De-cember.
Harry and Ruth (Stover)
Zerm, Palmyra Route 1, a
girl, 31 December.
Marlin and June (Weaver)
Geesaman, Grantville Route 1,
a boy, 31 December.
C. Fred and Therese (Dehr)
Fawber, 21 Walnu t Lane,
Cumberland Park, Penna., a
girl, 31 December.
Landis and Mary (Smith)
Tice, Grantville Route 1, a
boy, 2 January.
Simon and Janet (Kauff-man)
Rhoades, 17 W. Main
St., Hummelstown, a boy, 2
January.
Donald and Martha
(Smith) Wieland, 146 N. Har-rison
St., Palmyra, a girl, 2
January.
Vernon and Anna (Ortity)
Burger, Mill St., Middletown,
a girl, 4 January.
Ernest and Darlene (Woo
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