Hershey News 1957-07-04

              • HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 5 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JULY 4, 1957 No. 27
THE OLD DAYS of milk hauling were recalled by Wil-liam
E. Speck (photo at right), retired Hershey Choco-late
Corporation truck driver. The oldtime White truck
above was the first tank truck Speck piloted for the
Chocolate Corporation. The truck photo was taken
about 1926, but Speck had been driving for Hershey
some eight years by that time.
Retired Driver William R. Speck Put
In Thirty-Eight Years Behind Wheel
They were chain-drive, sol-id-
tire, snow-pushing trucks
in the days when William R.
"Bill"- Speck began his thirty-eight
years of driving for the
Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion.
Speck, now retired, was
one of the veteran milk haul-ers,
and during his long serv-ice
at the wheel he has "prob-ably
hauled enough milk to
float a battleship."
He began rolling up his
mileage at the Lebanon milk
plant of the Chocolate Corpor-ation
in 1918, although he had
previously driven for Hershey
temporarily the year before.
He transferred to the milk
department of the plant in
Hershey about seven years
ago.
Speck's memories of the
• earlier years include many ex-periences
which could try
men's souls in that era of deep
snow, little highway mainten-ance
and pioneer truckbuild-ing.
"In the winter snows we
opened the roads ourselves,"
Speck said.
At one time, he was strand-ed
by snow in Fredericksburg
and got to Lebanon with his
truckload of milk by hitching
ten horses ahead of the truck.
His first vehicles were flat-bottom
Packard trucks with-out
benefit of windshield.
Speck came along through
the years with Hershey to the
modern era of the big, effi-cient
tank trucks of today.
Now retired from trucking,
he is engaged in an interest-ing
job at the Palmyra Ani-mal
Clinic. He lives not far
away — at 300 South Forge
Road in Palmyra.
One of his favorite past-times
is cooking and baking,
and Mrs. Speck—the former
Pearl Bemesderfer—attests to
his ability.
"When he first retired,"
she said, "he spent a lot of
time in the kitchen. Then.we
began to gain too much
weight, so he bought a tele-vision
set to keep him out of
the kitchen."
Another of the ex-truck
driver's hobbies is hunting.
He combines the two past-times
when he goes to camp
at Cedar Run in Lycomingf
County with fellow hunters;
he serves as camp cook.
Speck is a native of Lick-dale
in Lebanon County. His
two sons, Joseph and Harold,
are both employed at the Leb-anon
milk plant of the Choco-late
Corporation. Daughter
Lillian (Mrs. Clarence Ice-man)
also lives in Lebanon.
BILL SPECK
The Speck clan is rather
numerous. There are six
granddaughters and two
grandsons, as well as three
stepdaughters, a stepso n,
three stepgranddaughters and
a stepgrandson. All of which
gives Mr. Speck ample oppor-tunity
to do some real camp-cooking
when they all come
to visit.
Chance Phillips Retires From
Chocolate Corporation Post
With forty-three years of service devoted to the pro-gress
of the Hershey Chocolate Corporation behind him, G.
Chance Phillips this week began a new role — that of en-joying
the leisure of a retired man.
The Corporation's Export and Merchandise Manager
joined the Hershey organization August 5, 1914, after his
graduation from Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio. His
entire working career was spent with Hershey.
A native of Springfield,
Mr. Phillips is married to a
college classmate, the former
Ruth Lynch. They are the par-rents
of two daughters —
Virginia (Mrs. N. Paul Kemp
of Baltimore, Maryland) and
Jean (Mrs. George M. Henry,
Jr., of Glen Ellyn, Illinois).
The Phillips have two grand-sons
and a granddaughter.
Among the many recollec-tions
of Mr. Phillips of the
early days of the Hershey
Chocolate Corporation is the
Project of the development of
chocolate syrup in which he
worked in close cooperation
with the late Milton S. Her-shey.
The basic experiments
in developing the now-famous
syrup were conducted in an
open kettle in the kitchen of
the Milton Hershey School at
Old Main.
Mr. Phillips, in addition to
his varied duties and reponsi-bilities
with the Chocolate
Corporation over the years,
has always been interested in
golf and is one of the commu-nity's
veteran golfers. His
playing days go back to the
time when the present Coun-try
Club course was a nine-hole
layout.
His recreational prefer-ences
also include gardening
at his home at 380 East Choco-late
Avenue, the sport of fish-ing,
and the enjoyment of
good reading.
He has long been-a member
of Derry Presbyterian
Church.
His last day at his desk—
last Friday—was filled large-ly
with receiving the best
wishes of his many friends
and associates.
4-II CLUB ELECTS
Officers were elected by the
Conewago 4-H Club at Bachman-ville
recently. Mariann Graybill
is president; Ruth Floyd, vice-president;
Carolyn Fisher; secre-tary-
treasurer; Peggy Fink, re-porter;
Cynthia Young, song
leader; and Linda Farver, game
leader.
Eleanor Hallman was appointed
junior leader.
Public To Be Familiarized With Civil Defense Signals
A "get-to-know-your-Civil
Defense - signals program"
will take place in Hershey on
Monday evening, July 8, and
again on Tuesday evening,
July 9, local Civil Defense Di-rector
Louis C. Smith an-nounced
this week.
On both evenings, the CD
sirens will sound the public
action signals, beginning at
7:15 p.m. with the "Alert"
signal.
And on both evenings, the
local Civil Defense organiza-tion
will publicly sound the
"Take Cover" warning at 7:30
p. m.
Smith emphasized that the
only action required of the
public in connection with the
sounding of t h e official
"Alert" and "Take Cover"
signals on Monday and Tues-day
evenings will be for every-one
to listen for and "get to
know" the two public action
signals.
The official "Alert" (or
"Attention") signal is a
long, steady, non-fluctuat-ing
siren blast lasting from
three to five minutes.
The official "Take Cov-er"
warning is a three-min-ute
long, pulsating or
warbling siren tone.
The official meaning of the
"Alert" signal is "listen for
emergency information or in-struction
(by radio or tele-vision
broadcast)." The "Al-ert"
also means "stand by to
be ready for the Take Cover
signal."
Official meaning of the
"Take Cover" signal of war-bling
tones is "take cover im-mediately."
The local Civil Defense Di-rector
again emphasized, how-ever,
that the July 8 and 9
program is designed strictly
to familiarize the public with
the nature of the "Alert" and
"Take Cover" siren sounds.
But on July 12 the Derry
Township Civil Defense or-ganization,
firemen, police
and public officials 'will join
in a nationwide public readi-ness
drill called "Operation
Alert 1957." At that time, ac-tive
public participation will
be required.
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