Hershey News 1959-01-08

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 7 (!) HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JANUARY 8, 1959 No. 2
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LITTLE MR. 1959, who arrived at Hershey Hospital
at 9:45 a.m. on New Year's Day, is Ronald Lee Bright-bill,
shown here with his proud mother, Mrs. David
Brightbill of Grantville Route 1. She's the former Isabel
Dagnell. Ronald Lee's vocal objections stemmed from
the fact that it was bottle-time, and he knew it.
Two Hershey Students In Band Event
Two Hershey High School
students have been named to
• the list of participating stu-dents
at the annual District
Band Festival of the South-ern
District of the Pennsyl-vania
Music Educators Asso-ciation
that will be held in the
Pequea Valley High School in
Kinzer, Pa., on January 8, 9,
and 10. .
The Hershey students par-ticipating
are Barbara Geesey,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.
Dennis Geesey of 218 Gover-nor
Road, and Judy Burd,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken-neth
F. Burd of Hummelstown
Route 1.
Miss Geesey will play the
second oboe and Miss Burd
will play the second french
horn.
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TAX EXEMPTION CLUB—Babies arriving in the ma-ternity
section of the Hershey Hospital on December
31 - were given special recognition as members of the
"Tax Exemption Club" and, were issued more-or-less
official -cèrtlfIca1 11gIbilit?-7sig" an
ditional Exemption for Income Tax Purposes."
The last-day-of-1958 Tax Exemption Club babies
are shown above, left to right, with their mothers —
Debra Lynn Cassel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John D.
Cassel, Hummelstown Route 2; Jeffrey Lynn Bush,
son of Mr. and Mrs. James Bush, 21 South Chestnut
Street, Palmyra; and Bonnie Jean Guisbert, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Guisbert, 35 North Franklin
Street, Palmyra.
At right, attending physician Dr. Harold H. Engle,
Palmyra, presents the Tax Exemption Club certificate
to little Bonnie Jean, who is ignoring the whole pro-ceeding.
The certificates bear important-looking seals and
are signed by the various attending physicians and the
hospital administrator.
Births Set New Mark
At Hershey Hospital
Another new record year
was established. in the Baby
Suite at the Hershey Hospital
during 1958 when the number
of births far surpassed all pre-ceding
years.
The year-end statistics, re-ported
by Hospital Adminis-trator
Welch England, show
that during 1958 there were a
total of 554 new little citizens
born at the local hospital.
The highest preceding year
was 1957, with 508 births.
Up until 1957, the hospital's
record year for babies had
been 1953, when 503 little
tykes had arrived.
More Girls
The statistics for 1958 show
a new development in that,
for the first time in a three-year
period, girl babies out-numbered
the boy babies, 280
to 274.
In 1957, the boys were in
the majority, 263 to 245, and
the 1956 arrivals included 252
boys and 232 girls. -
For. the three-year period
there were 32 more male
births than female. -
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Hershey News
Comm. Bldg.
Hershey, Po.
Conuriunity Club
Prepares Course
For Dog Owners
The eighth annual - dog
obedience training course will
begin later this month at the
Hershey Community -Club, it
was announced this week by
Ralph L. Hoar, club director.
Enrollments in the course
for canine pet owners will be
accepted beginning tomorrow
—Friday, January 9—at the
Community Club desk. The
enrollment is necessarily lim-ited
to sixty.
The classes will get under
way on Wednesday, January
21, Hoar said, with subse-quent
classes on February 4,
9, and 25; and March 4, 11,
and 18. All sessions are sched-uled
for Wednesday evenings
except the Monday, February
9, class.
TheY dog obedience training
course, which has proved its
popularity over the years, is
held in the Community Build-ing
social room, and is offered
free to Community Club mem-bers.
For others, 'there is a
fee of eight dollars for the
eight-week course.
In charge of instruction will
be Clyde Lamborn and George
Boyer, who have been asso-
' abed-with -the suecessf ul pro-gram
for the past six annual
sessions.
The course was first con-ducted
here in 1952, under the
Community Club's auspices,
and was an immediate suc-cess.
The initial class had an
enrollment of forty dog own-ers.
The first class was taught
by James Clark, manager of
the Putnam Kennels, Boston,
Mass., who was then stationed
at the IndiantOwn Gap Mili-tary
Reservation with the
U.S. Army.
Boyer and Lamborn took
over the instruction in 1953
and have successfully schooled
the dog owners ever since,
while the popularity of the
program continued to grow.
A limitation of sixty enrollees
was necessitated in order to
insure good results from the
instruction.
Enrollees in the training
classes come from Hershey
and from many nearby com-munities.
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