Hershey News 1956-06-28

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 4 co 0 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JUNE 28, 1956 No. 26
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Benjamin L. Flory
A fellow worker of Benjamin L. Flory at the Her-shey
Lumber Products last week told the Hershey News:
"When Ben passes a tree, the tree bows in respect."
It is true that for nearly 40 years Flory has trans-lated
a lot of lumber into objects of beauty and useful-ness
in his work as a carpenter and now a cabinetmaker.
His skilled hands have turned out many a fine stairway
for homes and public buildings in Hershey and else-where.
In fact, one of his achievements is located in the
main dormitory at the Pennsylvania State University.
A stairway builder since 1924, Flory has also done such
work for Hershey Lumber Products in Philadelphia.
His employment with Hershey dates back to No-vember
6, 1916. His first job was at the chocolate plant,
but in a short time he was transferred to the lumber
company. Some of his first carpentering jobs included
home-building on Areba Street, and his very first as-signment
was on the home of A. B. Snavely on East
Caracas Avenue.
In addition to stairway work, Flory now uses his
talent in building such cabinetwork items as pulpits,
lecterns, altars, furniture pieces. He's shown here as he
shaped up a drawer.
Flory's skill with a piece of lumber is no accident.
His father before him—the late John L. Flory—was a
builder and contractor and erected many of the homes
and barns in the Palmyra area.
Ben was born and reared near Colebrook and now
resides at 136 West Main Street in Campbelltown where
he is an active member of the Evangelical United
Brethren Church. His wife is the former Hilda Wanish
of Hummelstown and the Florys are the parents of Mrs.
Cyrus Stoner and Mrs. Raymond Blantz, both of Her-shey,
and John Flory who resides near Campbelltown.
There are six grandchildren.
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'Record Number Of
Students Enroll
In Summer School
GOING UP — Among the summertime construction
work in -progress here is this fourteen-room addition
to the Milton Hershey Memorial Building, Derry Town-ship's
modern elementary school. The additional class-rooms
are to be ready for use in September. As with
the original twenty-one classroom elementary school,
the extension is being provided by the Milton S. Her-shey
Foundation.
Playground Season Opens
Monday At Memorial Field
The summer recreation pro-gram
conducted by the Derry
Township School District in
cooperation with the Hershey
Community Club opened at
the Memorial Field Play-ground
Monday with a wide
variety of events and activi-ties
designed for all ages. The
playground will be a popular
spot until its closing date on
A u gust ,24.
John K. Hanshue is recre-ation
director and the staff in-cludes
Miss Virginia Straw-derman,
Mrs. Helen Evans
and Charles Longer.
The general recreation pro-gram
at Memorial Field also
offers many activities for
adults, Director Hanshue
pointed out. They include
tennis, badminton, shuffle-board,
croquet, horseshoes,
quoits, volleyball, baseball and
basketball.
Reservations for the facili-ties
for fireplace and oven
parties can be made with the
recreation director by calling
the playground telephone:
KEystone 3-2889.
For the youngsters, the
playground affords instruc-tion
and supervision in a wide
range of sports and games,
arts and crafts, and special
events.
A listing of special events:
June 28, checker tournament;
July 12, doll show; July 19,
bicycle parade (anything on
wheels) ; July 23, swimming
party; July 26, archery
tournment; August 2, hat
pet show; August 6, foul
shooting contest; August 9,
pet show; and August 16,
playground party (rain date,
August 17).
Regular playground hours
are ten a. m. to nine p. m.,
with free play at any time.
FROM DOWN UNDER
Among foreign visitors in
Hershey recently was J. A.
Joyce, representative of an
Australian chocolate firm.
Joyce toured the Hershey
Chocolate Corporation factory
and was a Rotary Club guest.
TOURNEY WINNER
Anthony Bracale, 17-year-old
Hershey golfer, won the
Palmyra Jaycee tournament
last Saturday at the Juvenile
Country Club with a 27-hole
medal total of 117.
Playground Baseball
Set-up Operates On
Cooperative System
Oita of the busiest phases
of the summer recreation
program at the Memorial
Field playgroond is the base-ball
activity in which more
than a hunched and forty
boys are taking part.
The set-up is an example
of sterling cooperation, and
the beneficiaries are the
young people of the commun-ity.
In cooperation with the
Derry Township School Dist-rict,
which operates the play-ground,
the overall direction
of the baseball leagues is pro-vided
by the Hershey Com-munity
Club where Don
Smith is physical director.
Also giving support to the
baseball program are a num-ber
of local service clubs and
individuals.
Aiding Smith in supervis-ing
the ballplaying young-sters
are:
Third-and-Fourth Grade
league — Glen Wineske,
Charles Hummer, Cy Sajeski,
Leon Rokosz and Dan Hess.
Fifth - and - Sixth Grade
league — Red Wanamaker
and Charles Hummer (Lions
Club); Dick Miller (VFW) ;
Don Hess and Levi Filepas
(Optimist Club) ; and Art
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Hershey News
Comm. Bldg.
Hershey, Pa.
A record breaking number
of 254 students are enrolled in
the Derry Township summer
school this year, it was an-,
nounced by Dr. L. Eugene
Jacques, superintendent of
schools, and George D. Lange,
high school principal.
The big summertime en-rollment
finds students rep-resenting
a total of twenty-six
schools from throughout a
wide area.
In addition to Hershey and
nearby communities, the sum-mer
school students come
from such areas as Harris-burg,
Lancaster, Lebanon,
Lititz, Ephrata, Manheim,
Camp Hill and many others.
Eighteen student teachers
from eight different colleges
make up the teaching staff,
which is supervised by these
regular Derry Township facul-ty
members: Norman Vander-wall,
English and languages;
Miss Annie Royer, commer-cial
f- Eugene Herr, science;
Daniel Lewis, social studies;
and Roy Hovis, mathematics.
Students are attending the
summer school to take advan-tage
of the opportunity for ad-vanced
work for personal ben-efit,
or to remove failing
grades from previous school,
work.
The summer school. operat-ed
by the Derry Township
School District is the only ap-proved
summer school in Dau-phin
County. Sessions are held
Monday through Friday of
each week, ending on July 20.
Distribution of the stu-dents
by grades: Grade 7,
nineteen; Grade 8, thirty;
Grade 9, fifty-seven; Grade
10, seventy-four; Grade 11,
fifty-four; Grade 12, eigh-teen;
and post-graduate, two.
Hershey Telephone Co.
To Film Toll Bills
The Hershey Telephone
Company last week announced
a change in the method of bill-ing
toll calls which permits
its subscribers to receive the
original toll tickets of all long
distance calls placed from
their telephones.
All information relative to
the handling of the toll call
will be passed along to the
subscriber in this manner.
The method is designed to
eliminate the former toll
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