Hershey News 1958-02-27

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 6 0 oCt,ta. HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, FEBRUARY 27, 1958 No. 9
OPEN HOUSE AT THE NATIONAL GUARD Armory at Caracas Avenue and Ridge
Road last Saturday brought Major General Henry K. Fluck, 28th Infantry Division
(PNG)- commander, to Hershey to tour the installation along with some seven hun-dred
civilian visitors from Hershey am) many nearby communities. In the photo above,
-0enFInek (at right) and Lr.'Col. Daniel Rogers, Mananding officer at the Her-shey
Armory, discuss a .50-caliber machine gun with a couple of the civilian visitors,
Earl R. Alleman of Enhaut and his daughter, Carol. Alleman is a veteran of the
112th Machine Gun Co. of the 28th Division.
The local units—Headquarters and Headquarters, Battery A, and the Medical
Detachment of the 899th Anti-Aircraft Artillery—held the open house event in con-junction
with the Guard's nationwide observance of Muster Day. A feature of the
local activity was a noon luncheon at the Armory, when guests of the Hershey
units included seventy civic, governmental, business and industrial representatives
from throughout the area. Principal speaker was Brig. Gen. William S. Bailey, 28th
Division Artillery commander, while remarks were given also by Congressman Wal-ter
M. Mumma and Col. Richard Snyder, deputy state adjutant-general.
WITH SPRING JUST AROUND THE CORNER, the Hershey EstateS Farm and
Garden Supply Center, formerly the Implement Department, announced the Spring
opening of its newly remodeled showroom, store and parts department. The Center
has invited the general public to visit its modernized facilities during the special
opening observance beginning Monday, March 3, and continuink through Saturday,
March 8. The Farm and Garden Supply Center is located at 173-177 West Choco-late
Avenue. Monday has been designated Family Day, but as weeklong host the
Center will provide free gifts and door prizes each day. (Continued On Page Two)
Chocolate Corporation in 1957
established their finest plant
safety record since the statis-tics
were first logged in 1938.
• During the year just past,
man-hours lost due to acci-dents
in the plant totalled
only 3,091-605 less than the
previous year and 10,877 less
than the high mark in man-hours
lost (1946).
In addition, the safety-con-seious
employees went
through the entire year of
1957 without one accident re-sulting
in disablement.
Percentage of the total
number of employees who lost
time due to accidents in the
plant was at the low figure of
.047 for 1957.
This creditable record plac-ed
the Hershey Chocolate Cor-poration
seventh in the Na-tional
Safety Council's na-tional
rankings among food
industries of the Hershey
class in a report issued for the
first eleven months of 1957.
The Safety Council report
also showed Hershey's fre-quency
rate 1..,f ilteiclenta is -
less than half the national av-
Hershey Truck Drivers
Earn Safety Awards
Eleven truck drivers of the
Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion
fleet have qualified for
the Safe Driver Award for
1957, sponsored by the Na-tional
Fleet Division of the
National Safety Council.
The award is given on a
long-mileage, no-accident ba-sis,
annually.
The Hershey Chocolate Cor-poration
drivers qualifying
for the 1957 honor are
George Bomgardner, Calvin
Groh, Harry Heffelfinger,
Oliver Hetrick, Charles Lan-dis,
Anthony Scheer, Edwin
StrOhm, W. P. Yerger, Rich-ard
Deaven, Wilbur Haas and
Williant Rittle.
Hershey Chocolate Corp. Employees
Achieve Outstanding Safety Record
Employees of the Hershey erage in the food industry sec-tion.
In safety bulletins, the
Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion's
Safety Committee has
congratulated all employees
for their outstanding achieve-ment
in this field. The safety
bulletins also listed a number
of departments sustaining a
perfect safety record for an
extended period of time.
Departments with perfect
records for ten years or more
are:
Store Room (General), 20
years; Sample, 19 years; Al-mond
and Peanut Picking, 16
years; Air Conditioning, 11
years; Laboratory, 11 years;
Engineering Office, Black-smiths,
Painters, Garage and
Paper Baler, 10 years.
Departments with 5-to-10-
year perfect records are:
Almond and Peanut Roast-ing,
9 years; Carpenters,
Store Room (Mechanical),
Bean Hulling and Milk Re-ceiving,
8 .years; Hot Chocoi-late,
Scrap Picking, General
Offices, General Factory, and
Office Janitors, 7 years;
Foiemen and Bean Handling,
6 years; Watchmen, Printing
and Bean Milling, 5 years.
The Safety Committee of
•the Hershey_ Chocolate Cor-poration
is a member of the
National Safety Council and
the Pennsylvania Motor Truck
Association. The committee,
headed by Chairman George
T. Bohner, includes:
Secretary L. 0. Umberger,
R. M. Bucher, R. S. Flowers,
R. J. Heagy, H. S. Mohler, L.
C. Smith, Jr., J. M. Solada,
C. J. Speicher, H. A. Vernet,
Jr., and W. K. Wagner. J. G.
Robertson is safety inspector.
Medical associates are Dr.
John 0. Hewlett and nurses
Mrs. Verna Strine and Mrs.
Helen Doyle. .
Serving on a safety advi-sory
committee at the Choco-late
Corporation, forwarding
suggestions and recommenda-tions
to the Safety Commit-tee,
is d six-man group in
which management and the
union both are represented.
The advisory committee is
chairmanned.by Donald Shay,
and includes Russell Heagy,
Walter Bowman, Corinto PIe-bani,
Fred Chiarma and Rus-sell
Gingrich.
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