Hershey News 1956-04-19

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 4 -ED-0 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, APRIL 19, 1956
READYING HERSHEY GARDENS FOR OPENING—Employes of the Hershey
Greenhouse and garden department are shown preparing one of the tuilp beds for the
opening of the Hershey Gardens on Saturday. Left to right they are: Larry Leg-gore,
Victor Schiavoni, Domenico Torrieri, Arthur Stains and Charles Miller.
No. 16
500 Boys And Girls
Get Safety Lesson
At Bicycle Program
Derry Township young-sters
numbering upwards of
500 jammed the Derry Town-ship
High School Playground
Plaza last Saturday to partici-pate
in the Optimist Club's
second annual Bicycle Safety
Program.
Like any good optimist,
Eileen Petrucci, 12, of 114
West Areba Avenue, "knew
all along" that she would win
the new bicycle offered as the
top prize in the program. She
received her prize from John
B. Snllenberger, president of
the Hershey Estates.
Boys and girls of all ages,
riding all kinds of bikes, took
part in the event. Each re-ceived
a colored, Scotch-light
emblem for their bike, a num-bered
registration card and a
safety booklet.
Drills in bicycle safety de-signed
to facilitate traffic
movement and prevent acci-dents
were conducted under
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Dairy Cattle Show Scheduled
As Feature Of Dutch Days
Plans for continuing the Dairy Cattle Show as a fea-ture
of the eighth annual Pennsylvania Dutch Days cele-bration,
August 23, 24, 25 and 26 have been announced by
James E. Bobb, chairman.
Breeders from eight central Pennsylvania counties will
again be invited to compete for prize money totaling $4300.
Ayrshire, Guernsey, Holstein-Friesian and Jersey breeders
from Dauphin, Cumberland, Lebanon, Lancaster, York,
Berks, Schuylkill and Perry counties will participate.
in' • addition to the dairy —
show competition, there will
be the annual heifer round-up
of the Dauphin and Lebanon
County 4-H clubs.
Cattle will be housed under
the Hershey Stadium stands,
with judging to be conduct-ed
on the stadium track. •
Bobb has announced mem-bers
of his committee as fol-lows:
A. S. Frommeyer, Har-old
Stewart, Glenn Miller,
Gordon D. Walker, Alfred S.
Dugan, Jr., and George A.
Hiler.
RETURNS FROM SERVICE
William A. Houtz, 312 Leh-man
St., Lebanon, has been
reinstated to Hershey Estates
Offices following his separa-tion
from the U. S. Air Force.
Hershey Nurse Receives
Air Force Commission
Second Lieutenant Susan
Jane Krantz, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Philip Krantz, 303
Para Ave., Hershey, has re-ceived
a commission as a Sec-ond
Lieutenant in the U. S.
Air Force Nurse Corps.
Lt. Krantz was graduated
from Hershey High School in
the Class of '51 and from the
School of Nursing, Polyclinic
Hospital, Harrisburg, class of
'54.
Her first duty station as-signment
in the service will be
with the 4322 US Air Force
Hospital, Lake Charles, La.
BICYCLE REGISTRATION—These Hershey youngsters are shown registering their
bicycles as part of the Hershey Optimist Club's second annual Bicycle Safety Program
last Saturday at the Derry Township High School Playground Plaza. Youngsters at
the left of the registration table are, left to right: Jimmy Keefer, Ronald Mull and
Bobby Weiser.
Colorful New Tulips To Be Introduced
Al Opening Of Hershey Gardens Season
Hershey's Spring and Summer showplace, the famous
Hershey Gardens, with their 21 acres of floral beauty, will
re-open to the public on Saturday.
Chief Horticulturist Harry L. Erdman, of the Hershey
Estates, has announced that the gardens will be open daily,
10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
First event on the garden's busy schedule will be the an-,
nual tulip festival. Some tulips will probably be open on Sat-urday,
with additional blooms expected during the week-end
of April 28-29.
The peak of the display is
expected during the 'week-end
of May 5-6, though
weather conditions could de-lay
or speed up the maximum
showing.
Ten new varieties, never
before shown in the United
States, will be offered the Of Savings Bonds
thousands of visitors who are
expected to throng the horti-cultural
wonderland. Among
these are, Chantelaine, Yel-low
Wings, Pilot Light, Or-chid
Belle, Devotion, Troca-dero,
Independence Hall, Her-shey's
Festival and Gettys-
The Hershey's Festival tu-lip,
incidentally, was named
for the Hershey Gardens.
In addition, six other new
types will be introduced for
the first time in the local gar-den,
including such Darwin
hybrids as the Eisenhower,
named for President Eisen-hower;
Roosevelt, Oxf or d,
Appledorn, Mountbatten and
Lady Grace.
A total of 101 varieties of
tulips are now included in the
garden's display, embracing
some 70 which have been ad-ded
since 1952. Upwards of
30,000 bulbs are included
throughout the section.
The Hershey Gardens, in-cidentally,
a r e celebrating
their 20th anniversary this
year. Conceived in 1936 by
the late Milton S. Hershey,
the celebrated layout has
grown from an acre and a half
display limited to roses to a
21-acre beauty spot which
also includes many annuals
and perennials, rare shrubs,
trees and evergreens.
The idea for the garden
came as a result of a sugges-tion
by the late Dr. J. Horace
McFarland, of Harrisburg, a
former official of the Ameri-can
Rose Society, that Mr.
Hershey make a donation
toward the establishment of
a National Rose Garden in
Washington, D. C. Instead,
Mr. Hershey commissioned
Mr. Erdman to establish the
present garden on the broad
expanse of land in front of
the Hotel Hershey.
Hershey Employes
Boost Purchases
Hershey employes have
once again done their part in
helping push the United Sav-ings
Bond campaign along to-ward
its national goal.
Complete reports from the
Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion
show that a total of 339
new purchasers signed up to
buy bond's through the Pay-roll
Deduction Plan. In addi-tion,
204 otohers increased the
amount of their purchases.
A total of 56 per cent of the
Chocolate Corporation em-ployes
are now participating
in the plan.
Reports from the Hershey
Estates are incomplete, but
160 new purchasers are re-ported
to date, plus 57 others
who increased their pur-chases.
Forty-five per cent of
the Estates employes are now
listed as regular buyers.
More Volunteers
Urgently Needed
For Plane Spotting
More volunteers are urgent-ly
needed by the Hershey Post
of the Ground Observer Corps
to help man the observation
post on top of the Community
Building on a 24-hour basis.
Volunteers for this vital
civil defense job are urged to
call Mrs. Marlyn Herbst, 227
Maple Avenue, Hershey.
The Corps recently made
awards of merit pins and 250
hour bars to Robert Boyd,
Therese Donovan, Mr. and
Mrs. Leo Simes, and C. M.
Trayer.
For service of 100 hours and
over, the following received
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