Hershey News 1956-10-25

              Vol. 4
HERSHEY NEWS
No 43 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, OCTOBER 25, 1956
Stage Set For Community's Halloween Observance
, BOY SCOUT LEADERS from throughout the Swatara District of the Keystone
• Area Council were in Hershey last Thursday for the annual district meeting. In the
.photo at left above, the new and the old district chairmen get together — Dr. John
• 0. Hershey, Milton Hershey School superintendent (at left) takes over the helm as
the newly elected chairman from Attorney William Saye who held the chairmanship
for the past year. In the picture at the right, Gethin A. Kurtz, (left) chairman of
the district camping committee, congratulates Hershey Troop 76 Assistant Scout-master
Chester J. Minnich after Minnich was honored by being awarded the Order
-11orit lor-his out services- to.Scouting. Ilinnich, an employee of the Her-shey
Chocolate Corporation, also serves in Scouting as a neighborhood commis-sioner.
To Hold Model Election
Hershey's over-21 popula-
• tion will be going to the polls
• on November 6. But by that
- time Election Day will be
over for the students of Her-shey
Junior College.
The J-C collegians will hold
- a model Presidential election
. on November 5, when the
members of the student body
will "v,ote" for their
own choices for President,
• Vice President and United
States Senator. The model
election will be run off as an
exercise in the science of gov-ernment.
Conducting the project are
the junior college members of
- the Inter-Collegiate Confer-ence
on Government, with
Prof. William Schmehl as ad-visor.
Also cooperating in the
"election" is the Hershey
Junior College newspaper,
Voting Machines For Derry Township?
The question of whether
voting machines should be
provided for the voters of
Derry Township for use in fu-ture
elections will be Ans-wered
on November 6 when
the local residents go to the
polls in the general election.
The voting machine ques-tion
will appear on the local
ballots as a special item. The
proposed change in voting
procedure from the paper bal-lot
to machines requires the
approval of the people to put
it into effect.
Should the majority of the
the Format.
The students will register
for the "election" during the
three-day period of October
31 through November 2.
voters approve the use of vot-ing
machines here, the ma-chines
will be purchased by
the county. Election officials
said the machines are sup-plied
in about a year after re-ceiving
the voters' approval.
Prior to putting them into
operation, demonstrations are
held in the various voting
districts adopting them in or-der
to thoroughly acquaint
the voters with the method of
casting a ballot by machine.
Chief benefits from the use
of voting machines, election
officials pointed out, are the
speed with which the results
can be compiled when the
polls close and the accuracy
with which the tabulations
are made.
To Conduct Religious Survey
A religious survey of the
Hershey area, in which fami-lies
will be asked their church
affiliations or preferences,
will be conducted on the after-noon
of Sunday, November 4,
by volunteer workers from
various local churches. The
survey is being sponsored by
the Hershey Ministerium, and
each participating church
group will furnish twenty-five
"census takers" for the proj-ect.
The survey will be conduct-ed
in Hershey proper and the
areas of Palmdale, Swatara
Station, Mountain View, Un-ion
Deposit, and Sand Beach.
Rev. Kermit L. Lloyd,
chairman of the Minister-ium's
project, said that
churches supplying census
takers are First Evangelical
United Brethren Church, Der-ry
Presbyterian Church,
Spring Creek Church of the
Brethren, Holy Trinity Lu-theran
Church, Fishburn and
Union Deposit Evangelical
United Brethren Churches
and All Saints Episcopal
Church. Also taking part will
The stage is set for the Derry Township 'community
Halloween celebration featuring a three-division parade
through the town. The event is an annual special project of
the Derry Township Parent-Teacher Association.
General Chairman Terence G. Faul this week announced
all plans were in readiness for the parade, which is sched-uled
to start on its way at six-thirty on the evening of Oc-tober
31. Faul reported that local business and industrial
people have-been very generous in furnishing prizes for the
community event. The Halloween chairman urged the coin-munity
at large to "follow through" in widespread partici-pation
in the parade in order to help insure its success.
The committee in charge of planning also requested
householders living along the parade route to turn on their
porch and other outside lights during parade time next Wed-nesday
evening.
Route of the parade:
Form at School Plaza at
six p. m.; move out of as-sembly
area at six-thirty.
North on Ceylon to
Chocolate.
West on Chocolate to
Ridge.
South on Ridge to Cara-cas.
East on Caracas to Lin-den.
South on Linden to Gran-ada.
East on Granada to
School Plaza.
Judging results are to be
announced immediately fol-lowing
the conclusion of the
parade. The announcements
will be made at the front of
the Hershey High School
Other events in connection that they can
with the Halloween celebra-lby the judges.
tion will include a P1'A-spon-1 Prize categories announced sored hake sale at the front are: Best school group (cards of the high school building numbered in the 900's) ; best and a teenage dance in the non-family group (BOO's); school gymnasium, also under best family group (700's) ; PTA sponsorship. most original (600's) ; most The committee arranging comical (500's) ; most grog the parade also announced tesque (400's) ; prettiest that, in case of rain. all Hal-loween
activities will be held (MCI's)
;best impersonation
(200's) ; best motorized float; in the high school building. best non-motorized float (0- List Categories
In announcing the cate- 99).The issuing of the number- gories for Which prizes will be ed identifying cards will take
awarded to parade partici-pants,
the committee pointed
lthe place of pre-parade regia-out
that the entrants will be tration.The Planning Committee issued numbered cards prior of PTA members headed by to the start of the parade. The Faul includes Brent I. Han- numbers will be used to iden- cock, Elwood Meyers, Harold tify the prize winners and will S. Mohler and Hiram Groff. be announced at the termin-ation
of the procession.
Mrs. Ralph Gish and Mrs.
Parade participants were
Ralph Horst are chairmaning
•the bake sale, and Miss Edna cautioned to be sure the num-bered
cards are displayed so
Stambaugh is in charge of
' leimoUsisint es Page Twot
be seminarians from the
Evangelical and Reformed
Seminary in Lancaster.
The results of the religious
survey will be tabulated and
reports will be given to the
various churches, Rev. Lloyd
said.
The census takers will meet
next Tuesday evening at
eight o'clock in the Little
Theatre of the Community
Building, when the chairman
Will explain the mechanics 0
the survey and the area dis-tricting
set-up.
• PARADE FORMATION
Mounted Group, Pennsylvania
State Police, as Parade Mar-shal.
First Division:
Officers of Parent-Teacher
Association, Board of School
Directors, Board of Supervisors,
Hershey Chocolate Corporation
and Hershey Estates.
Milton Hershey School Band.
Hershey Lions' Club.
Second Division:
Stansfield Family Mounted
Group.
Hershey School Cadet Band.
Marchers, Floats.
Third Division:
Hershey High School Band.
Marchers.
Service Club Floats.
Fire Company and Equip-ment.
be easily, seen
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