Hershey News 1956-10-04

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 4 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, OCTOBER 4,1956 No. 40
Hershey Corporation
Given Safety Award
For the fourth time since 1952 the Hershey Chocolate
Corporation has operated for more than one million con-tinuous
man-hours without an industrial accident causing
lost time or a disabling injury.
In recognition of its latest safety achievement, the
Chocolate Corporation was presented with the Pennsylvania
Manufacturers Association Safety Plaque award at noon on
Monday. Making the presentation was G. Mason Owlett, PMA
president.
The award was received by Samuel F. Hinkle, Hershey
Chocolate Corporation president, at a ceremony held in the
company offices.
In its latest industrial safety record the Chocolate Cor-poration
chalked up 1,413,342 accident-free man-hours be-tween
May 3 and August 1, this year.
The PMA plaque presentation was made Monday
before the Combined Safety Committees of the Chocolate
Corporation. These include the General Committee of
fourteen persons representing supervisory personnel,
and the Safety Advisory Committee composed of three
representatives of Local 464, Bakery and Confectionery
Workers' International Union, AFL, and three repre-sentatives
of management.
Chocolate Corporation officials present for the ceremony
included John J. Gallagher, chairman of the board; Harold S.
Mohler, industrial engineer; and A. Bowman Snavely, chief
engineer and chairman of the General Safety Committee.
Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association officials here
for the award presentation were Joseph K. Berry, district
manager of the PMA Harrisburg office; Paul J. Sherwin,
manager of safety engineering; and J. Charles Hofmaster,
assistant manager of safety engineering; and Fred T. Clark,
safety engineer for the Harrisburg area.
Serving on the General Safety Committee of the Choc-olate
Corporation are Chairman A. Bowman Snavely, Sec-retary
L. 0. Umberger, R. M. Bucher, Miss Margaret M.
Clark, Ralph E. Deibler, Ray S. Flowers, Dr. H. H. Hostet-ter,
Harold S. Mohler, Louis C. Smith, Jr., James M. Soliday,
Clarence J. Speicher, H. A. Vernet, Jr., and William- K. Wag-ner.
J. G. Robertson is safety inspector.
Members of the Safety Advisory Committee are Chair-man
Donald Shay, Secretary Ralph E. Deibler, Warren Ple-bani,
Walter Bowman, Fred Chiarma and Harold Kendig.
In making the presentation of the safety award. PMA
President Owlett emphasized the outstanding achievement
of the corporation and its employes by pointing out that the
Hershey Chocolate Corporation is the first PMA member-firm
to receive the Safety Plaque twice.
Management and employes both came in for a full share
of the credit for establishing the award winning safety rec-ord.
Owlett said: "Without outstanding cooperation it would
not be possible to earn this plaque."
Attending the presentation ceremony also were John 0.
Shearer, business agent for Local 464, Bakery and Confec-tionery
Wo-rkers Union; R. Stearl Sponaugle, Local 464 pres-ident;
and Earl G. Light, factory branch president.
John R. Zoll, a former member of the General Safety
Committee, also attended the event.
• The Chocolate Corporation earned its first PMA Safety
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Firemen To Hold Open House
The Hershey Volunteer Fire Company will hold open
house during the coming week —, October 8-13, inclusive —
as a feature of its big membership drive and also as part of
the observance of Fire Prevention Week.
The general public is invited to visit the fire house to
see the new addition to the fire company building', the new
Oren pumper and other items of equipment which go to
make the local unit a modern and efficient firefighting or-ganization.
Special open house hours,were announced for six to nine
o'clock each evening during the week and from ten a. m. to
seven p. m. on Saturday.
On Sunday, October 14, the company has scheduled a
Firemen in Action Drill on the Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion
west parking lot at the rear of the Post Office. Start-ing
at two p. m., the firemen will demonstrate the uses of
their firefighting and rescue equipment for the benefit of
the people of the community which they serve.
Meanwhile, the fire company membership campaign
was under way this week and will continue throughout next
week under the chairmanship of Robert K. Raffensperger.
The campaign is not a drive for contributions, but to en-list
the endorsement and support of every male member of
the community over 18 years of age, if possible.
SAFETY AWARD IN RECOGNITION of more than a million continuous man-hours
without a lost-time industrial accident was presented to the Hershey Chocolate Cor-poration
on Monday. Here Samuel F. Hinkle, Corporation president, receives the
safety plaque from G. Mason Owlett, president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers'
Association which makes the awards.
Men in the photo, left to right, are John J. Gallagher, chairman of the board, Her-shey
Chocolate Corporation; Roy Musslem an of the PMA Harrisburg office; A. Bow-man
Snavely, Chocolate Corporation chief engineer and chairman of the General Safe-ty
Committee; J. C. Hofmaster, assistant manager of safety engineering, PMA; Choco-late
Corporation President S. F. Hinkle; P. J. Sherwin, manager of safety engineer-ing,
PMA; PMA President G. Mason Owle tt ; H. S. Mohler, Chocolate Corporation in-dustrial
engineer; J. K. Berry, Harrisburg district manager, PMA; F. T. Clark, safe-ty
engineer, Harrisburg area, PMA; and J. 0. Shearer, business agent, Local 464,
Bakery and Confectionery Workers Intern ational Union, AFL.
Antique Cadillac
Given To Museum
(Photo on Page 4)
A 1903 model Cadillac, look-ing
as if it had just come
from the factory, was added
to the colorful display at the
Hershey Museum over the
weekend.
The ancient car, chugging
under, its own • power, was
guided into its exhibit space
by William F. Fleming of
Doylestown, who restored the
machine for Mrs. Genevra
Muldowne y. McAlister of
Pittsburgh, who presented it
to the museum.
John B. Sollenberger, pres-ident-
of the Hershey Estates,
accepted the gift after taking
a ride up and down the
museum aisles. The 'colorful
ceremony was marked by the
appearance of Mrs. McAlister
and Mr. Fleming in the tradi-tional
linen dusters which
motorists of the period wore
as standard attire.
A representative of Cadil-lac's
original line of gas bug-gies,
the car first was sold to
a Harrisburg resident by the
McAlister Agency, which was
operated by William J. Mc-
Alister and his brother, Ray-mond
P. McAlister.
The car was presented to
the museum as a memorial to
the brothers by Mrs. McAl-ister,
widow of William J.
McAlister. •
A brass plate attached to
Waatlaael ea /age /earl
Fund Canvass Opens Oct. 22
As the annual at-work
fund raising campaign among
local businesses and indus-tries
was drawing to a close
this week, the Derry Town-ship
Welfare Board announc-ed
it was readying plans for a
community -wide canvass
starting October 22.
The unified campaign is
sponsored here by the Wel-fare
Board in collaboration
with the Tr -County United
Fund of Dauphin, Perry and
Cumberland Counties, provid-ing
the convenience of the
payroll deduction system for
employees of participating
businesses, industries and in-stitutions.
The door-to-door canvass of
the- community during the
week of October 22 will be
conducted by volunteer work-ers
who will contact donors
not reached in the at-work
phase of the drive,
Derry Township Chairman
H. A. Vernet, Jr., announced
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