Hershey News 1956-02-09

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 4 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, FEBRUARY 9, 1956
WHILE THE TOWN SLEEPS a couple of "night owls" who help keep an eye on things
during the wee, small hours are Deputy Constable Clem Miller, who handles the night
patrol, and Larry Hayward, auditor at the Community Inn, who does a large number
of things at the inn desk between one and nine a. m. Miller is shown here making
one of his periodic checks with Hayward during the night.
The inn is a beacon of light in an otherwise darkened town in the early morn-ing
hours and, as such is often the place that people turn to when they have after-midnight
problems or questions. Hayward, on duty and busily engaged in his audit-ing
work, along with checking guests in or out, is often called upon to be the "answer
man." And many times he passes the problem to Miller. Night-time problems range
from someone reporting stray cows on a rural road to a stranded motorist.
In his patrol work in the township at night, Miller works in close liaison with
the State Police who are also local "night owls."
His job is to cover the township with a watchful eye. Residents can sleep
easily during the night because of his thorough patrolling of the streets and alleys
as he watches for signs of irregularities indicating burglary or other crime, and for
such hazards as fire in the night.
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People At Work — Antonio Ionni, Truckman
SUGAR SHOVER — An electric truck operator at the
Hershey Chocolate Corporation factory, Antonio Ionni
helps keep the vital flow of incoming sugar moving
toward the chocolate processing operations. He's been
moving sugar for more than twenty-five years.
If all the sugar handled by
Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion
employee Antonio Ionni
in the past twenty-five years
were dimped on one pile, it
would make a small white
mountain.
Ionni, an electric truck op-erator
at the chocolate fac-tory,
has been transporting
and stacking incoming ma-terials
— primarily sugar —
since 1930, a little more than
quarter of a century. Orig-inally,
Ionni notes, the job
called for handling the ma-terials
largely by muscle-pow-er.
Things are better now;
materials come in smaller-size
packages and handlers
are equipped with electric
trucks.
Ionni came here from his
native Italy in 1922 at the age
of seventeen and worked for
a number of years as a quar-ryman
before entering the
employ of the Hershey Choco-late
Corporation. He is mar-ried
to the former Mary Tan-credi
of Hershey and they re-side
at 231 West Caracas Av-enue.
Their two sons are both
veterans of the armed forces
—Richard is a graduate of
Temple University and is now
working in Pittsburgh; Ray
is a Hershey Junior College
student. Richard served in the
Army and his brother is a
Navy vet. The Ionnis' daugh-ter,
Rita, is a student at St.
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Retired Mechanic Operated Hershey
Factory's Experimental Sugar Mill
Harry E. Seibert, of 107
Trinidad Avenue, who retired
from- the Hershey Chocolate
Corporation recently, is a
member of a generation of
skillful, right-hand-thread
mechanics whose hands first
became familiar with tools on
the myriad of maintenance
and repair jobs connected
with farming.
With a solid basic knowl-edge
of machinery from his
early days as a farmer, Sei-bert
went into the chocolate
factory in 1924 and at the
time of his retirement he had
worked as a maintenance me-chanic
for nearly thirty-two
years.
Going into the factory, he
was chosen to operate the
first sugar mill, then on an
experimental basis, and his
suggestions for changes help-ed
making the device a suc-cess
and led to his selection
for work as a factory me-chanic.
He liked his work and his
mechanical aptitude prompt-ed
him to design improve-ments
and adaptations over
the years.
A native of Dauphin Coun-ty,
he was born and reared
near Middletown, not far
from the Dauphin-Lancaster
County line. He has also lived
near Elizabethtown and north
of Rutherford Heights.
His earlier life as a farmer
was interrupted back in 1909
Harry Seibert
when he was first employed
at Hershey. That stint in the
chocolate factory saw him
working on piece work as a
hand moulder. In 1911, he
went into stock farming,
eventually selling out his
stock in 1923 to return to
Hershey:
He was married to Miss Es-ther
Nye, whose home was
south of Hershey, in 1910.
The Seiberts are the parents
of one daughter, Mrs. Harry
Kreiser, who lives near
Campbelltown. They're also
proud of their seven grand-children
and two great-grand-children.
Club Honors Another Schoolboy Hero
Terrance Murphy, Milton
Hershey School senior who
rescued two younger M.H.S.
boys from the icy waters of
Swatara Creek on December
18, was saluted for his hero-ism
by the Hershey Optimist
Club last evening (Wednes-day).
Murphy was given the
Optimists' latest Good Citi-zenship
Award at a dinner
meeting in the Community
Dining Room.
Presentation of the award
to Murphy was made by
George Freeland, housefather
at Farm Home Swatara of
the Milton Hershey School.
Freeland is also chairman of
the Optimist Club's Good
Citizenship Committee. Mur-phy
lives at M.H.S. Farm
Glenview.
The rescue for which the
high school senior was honor-ed
took place near the Sand
Beach covered bridge last De..
cember 18 when two Seventh
Grade boys fell through the
ice while skating. Murphy, a
rope tied to his waist, enter-ed
the icy water and pulled
the two youngsters to safety.
Also at the session, a pro-gram
commemorating Boy
Scout Week was presented.
TO GIVE PLAY
The Junior Class of Her-shey
High School will give a
three-act play titled "We
Shook The Family Tree" by
Christopher Sergel adapted
from the book written by
Hildegarde Dolson. The play
will be presented in the high
school auditorium on Febru-ary
23rd and 24th.
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