Hershey News 1957-09-26

              HERSHEY NEWS
- Vol. 5
• State Commander Of VFW
Is Guest Of local Post
William J. Tepsic of Brent-wood,
state commander of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars,
was the guest of Hershey
Memorial Post 3502 and its
Ladies' Auxiliary at a dinner
at the post home on West Ca-racas
Avenue last Saturday
evening.
A large number of mem-bers
of the post and auxiliary
joined in honoring the state
VFW chief and enjoyed the
varied menu of the dinner,
smorgasbord style.
-Accompanying the state
commander on his inspection,
of the local units were State'
Adjutant Robert S. Musser,
Past District Commander J.
W. Wilson, and bistrict Sen-ior
Vice - Commander Wayne
Snavely.
Tepsic addressed the Her-shey
members, stressing the
need for emphasis on the
great community services per-formed
by the men and wo-men
of the organization. He
called for teamwork in con-tinuing
the building of the
VFW.
During his visit, Tepsic
presented Hershey Post Com-mander
Clarence E. Jefferies
with his autographed picture
and asked Jefferies to appoint
as an aide to the state com-mander
an outstanding repre-sentative
of the post as "Mr.
Americanism."
MRS. Alumni Group To
List Slate Of Nominees
A slate of nominees for office will
be presented at the October 2 meet-ing
of the Milton Hershey School
Alumni Association's Homestead
Chapter. The session will be held
at Farm Unit Meadow Brook.
The elections will be held by
mail ballot prior to the annual
M.H.S. Alumni Homecoming in No-vember.
•
The alumni association is already
working on plans for commemorat
ing the fiftieth year of the Milton
Hershey School at the 1959 Home-coming.
Class Elects Officers
Raymond W. Hersh was elected
president of the Sophomore Class
of Hershey Junior College at an
election meeting held last week.
Other class officers are James
H. Mease, vice-president, and Wini-fred
F. Adams, secretary-treasur-er.
The class sponsor is Dr. Rudolf
Sturm.
HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 26, 1957
HERSHEY CHOCOLATE Corporation President Sam-uel
F. Hinkle (second from right) was among a group
of U.S. chocolate industry officials who met recently
with Vice President Richard M. Nixon in Washington,
D. C., on the eve of an important international confer-ence
on cocoa at Itradan, Nigeria. Another Hershey
Chocolate Corporation official, Corporation Vice Presi-dent
L. W. Majer, is taking an active part in the Niger-ian
meeting which was due to end today (Thursday).
Mr. Nixon, who had visited West Africa last Spring,
drank a cup of cocoa with the visiting industry repre-sentatives
and discussed his experiences in the cocoa-growing
nations. The Vice President was the United
States' official representative at the celebration of the
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independence of Nigeria's neighboring country of
Ghana.
Ghana is the world's largest producer of cocoa and
the United States is the largest consumer.
In the photo, from left, are: Bradshaw Mintener,
general counsel of the Association of Cocoa and Choco-late
Manufacturers of the United States; Henry Blom-mer
of the Blommer Chocolate Company; Daniel E.
Hegarty of the Walter Baker Division, General Foods
Corporation; Vice President Nixon; Hershey Chocolate
Corporation President Hinkle; and Clive C. Day, chair-man
of the Board.,of the Nestle Company and president
of the Association of Cocoa and Chocolate Manufac-turers.
tower Rate For Electric —
More than three thousand of the Hershey Electric
Company's customers will be getting the benefit of reduced
rates on their electric bills which will be rendered under
date of September 30.
The following table shows the saving
effected by the new tariff:
Old
Rate
that will be
New
Rate
First 30 kwh - $1.95 $1.65
Next 30 kwh 1.50 1.50
:Next 40 kwh 1.40 1.20
Next 100 kwh 2.50 2.00
Totals for 200 kwh $7.35 $6.35
From the above it will be noted that the saving on the
first 200 kwh will be $1.00.
In this period of inflation the Hershey Electric Com-pany
is pleased to be able to extend these lower rates to its
customers.
Horticulture Society Has Election
Mrs. Ralph Horst was elect- ticulturist-emeritus, and Ir-ed
president of the recently
organized Hershey Horticul-ture
Society as the group met
to choose its officers and com-mittee
people for the coming
year.
Named to serve as advisors
to the society were Harry L.
Erdman, Hershey Estates hor-
ALL DIVISIONS
Of The Hershey Estates
Are Open Aid Work Is
Available FOr All
Employes
Hershey Estates
yin Slesser and Glenn Wines-ke.
Officers elected along with
Mrs. Horst are Mrs. Raymond
Shaver, vice-president; Mrs.
Joseph Laws, secretary; Mrs.
Robert Schaffner, correspond-ing
secretary; and Mrs. Al-fred
Gibble, treasurer.
The program committee is
headed by Mrs. Richard Baca-stow;
the membership com-mittee
by Mrs. Charles Hand;
publicity committee, Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin Cohen; and the
ways and means committee,
Mrs. H. H. Stauffer and Mrs.
Charles Harnden.
It was announced that the
guest speaker for the opening
meeting—to be held Monday,
October 7, at eight p.m. in
the Little Theatre—will be
ICentinued ea rat. Two,
H. H. Baum Replaces Dearden At MHS
HOWARD H. BAUM — WILLIAM E. DEARDEN
Two well known Hershey men Corporation announced their new
are occupied with getting the feel appointments.
of new desks as the Milton Hershey William E. Dearden, assistant
School and the Hershey Chocolate (Continued Oa Page Fame)
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