Hershey News 1957-12-05

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 5 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, DECEMBER 5, 1957 No. 49
CHRISTMAS SEASON PORTRAIT is typical of all boys and girls at this time of the
year as they make their annual pilgrimages to pass their requests albng to the
genial gentleman behind the beard. Here, George Wieland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ken-neth
Wieland of 14 East Ridge Street, Palmyra, shows his pleasure at his enviable
position on the lap of Santa Claus. The youngsters' bewhiskered friend is currently
meeting his public at the Hershey Department Store.
Hershey AAU Swim Team Preps For Meets
An organization of parents,
backing an AAU (Amateur
Athletic Union) swimming
team, has been at work for
NOTICE
HERSHEY WATER COM-PANY
will begin its annual
fire hydrant flushing pro-gram
on Monday, Decem-ber
9, 1957. All fire hy-drants
in the territory will
be flushed. This work will
be done in the evenings
starting at 10:00 P. M. and
should take approximately
two weeks from the above
date. Some minor difficul-ties
such as low pressure,
rumbling noises and discol-oration
of water may be ex-perienced
during this pro-gram.
This will only be
temporary and 'should give
no cause for alarm.
We regret any inconveni-ence
this may cause you.
Hershey Water
Company
some time readying the new
group for competitive meets
with Middle Atlantic States
AM.J teams.
The Hershey team, spon-sored
by the Community Club,
currently has a roste.r of
forty-two girls from through-out
the Hershey area. They
are coached by Miss Kathleen
Lewis, Community Club wo-men's
division athletic di-rector,
and have been work-ing
out for approximately
four weeks in the Women's
Club pool and at the Milton
Hershey School pool.
Heading the parents' or-ganization
is President Robert
Fox. Other officers of the
supporting group are Frank
Cifani, first vice-president;
Mrs. Aldo DeCarlo, second
vice-president; Mrs. Robert
Kreider, secretary; Howard
Souder, treasurer. Commu-nity
Club Director Ralph L.
Hoar serves with the group
as coordinator.
Directors include George
Flickinger, program; Arthur
Henry, membership; Rudolph
Sonni, transportation; a n d
Willard Johns, publicity.
The Hershey AAU swim-mers
will meet other AAU
Middle Atlantic States regis-tered
teams, and plans in-clude
a number of dual meets
with "outside" teams.
A tentative date with Read-ing
was announced for Satur-day,
December 7, and a con-firmed
date on the schedule
will take the Hershey swim-mers
to the York Relay Car-nival
on December 14.
Other meets will be held at
York, Germantown and Phil-adelphia,
with possible dual
meets with teams from Phil-adelphia,
York and Wilming-ton.
A number of the dual meets
will be scheduled for Hershey.
CHRISTMAS DINNER
The annual Christmas dinner af
the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Her-shey
American Legion post has been
announced for Monday, December 9,
at the Legion home. Invited to at-tend
as special guests are the Gold
Star Mothers of the community.
Rotarians Announce Yule'
Home Decorating Contest
With - the town already
showing much of the Christ-mas
season glow, the Hershey
Rotary Club this week an-nounced
its annual Christmas
Home Decorating Contest
will again be held, with the
judging date set for Thurs-day,
December 26.
Ivan W. Seltzer has been
named chairman of the Ro-tary
committee which will
handle the details of the 1957
home decorating contest. Oth-er
committee members were
to be appointed this week.
As in the past, a top award
of fifty dollars will be given
as the grand prize. The award
was won last Christmas by
Mr. and Mrs. Merle Stuckey
of 334 Elm Avenue.
Other awards were listed as
follows:
Best window or doorway ---
First prize, $20; second prize,
$10; third prize, $5.
Best lighting display —
First prize, $20; second prize,
$10; third prize, $5.
Most original -- First
prize, $20; second prize, $10;
third prize, $5.
Most artistic — First prize.
$20; second prize, $10; third
Prize, $5.
Milton Hershey School
Home Units — First prize.
$20.— •
The area to be judged on
the evening of December 26,
and eligible for awards, in-
S. F. Hinkle Named To
Natl. Planning Council
'Samuel F. Hinkle, presi-dent
of the Hershey Choco-late
Corporation, has been
named to membership on the
National Council of the Na-tional
Planning Association.
The Council is a group of
leaders in agriculture, busi-ness,
labor and the profes-sions,
representative of all
geographic areas in the coun-try.
Membership is limited to
one thousand.
Its purpose is to encourage
cooperation by the major pri-vate
groups, and to promote
wider public consideration of
the long-term planning stud-ies
undertaken by NPA and
other organizations.
eludes all of Derry Township,
the Rotary Club committee
pointed out. Judging will be
done by a panel of qualified
persons, selected on the basis
of their artistic sense and ex-perience.
Lights Glow
In the town "square" and
at other points in the com-munity,
the Christmas lights
have been glowing for a week.
The Chocolate Corporation
Office Building is again deck-ed
out festively and is a
source of admiration for many
persons passing through Her-shey
as well as for the local
populace. Other business
buildings around the square
are also tastefully and at-tractively
lighted to add to
the seasonal flavor.
Home decorating will round
out the community's tradi-tional
Christmas picture.
DEAN of Hershey Junior
College, Dr. Varnum H.
Fenstermacher, was elected
to the executive committee
of the, Middle States Asso-ciation
of Colleges and Sec-ondary
Schools at the asso-ciation's
annual convention
in Atlantic City, N. X., on
November 29 and 30.
Other Pennsylvanians
elected to offices are Mil-lard
Gladfelter, provost of
Temple University, who be-came
association vice-presi-dent;
and Gene D. Gis-burne,
University of Penn-sylvania
vice-president, who
was elected association sec-retary.
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