Hershey News 1964-05-28

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 12 HERSHEY, 'PENNSYLVANIA, MAY 28, 1964 No. 11
COCOA AVENUE PLAZA Swimming facilities will open for the
summer on Memorial Day in accordance with the following sched-ule:
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday — All ages
may swim from 1:00 to 10:00 p.m. Thursday the pool will be open
to all ages from 1:00 to 7:00i but to adults only from 7:00 to 10:00
p.m. On Saturday the pool will be open to all ages from 12 noon to
10:410 p.m.
Indianapolis 500 To Be Seen At Arena
An outstanding group of announ- 'who will
cers has' been recruited by MCA
TV to cover the historic first
closed-circuit telecast of the famed
Indianapolis 500-mile race classic
on Memorial Day. One of the
Nationwide sites will be the Hershey
' Sports Arena where starting time
will be.11:40 a. m.
The talented foursome will con-sist
,of Charlie Brockman, chief
announcer; Chris Economiaki, who
will be in charge of reporting the
action and activity in the pits;
Sam Hank.„ who will be reporting Hershey agencies in Harrisburg,
from the view point of the drivers York, Lancaster, and
on the track and Tom Carnegie, Lebanon.
views.
In addition, there will be two an-nouncers
assisting Brockman in
the permanent announcing booth
which has been specially con-structed
for the telecast.
Seating capacity at the Hershey
arena will be over 6,400 for the
big race, with two hugh screens
supplying the video from the west
end and the middle of the build-ing.
Reserved seats are now on
sale at Hershey Park office and
handle pre-race inter-
Reading
Community Center Scene Of Coin Show
Hershey Community Center Din-ing
Room will be the site of the
annual Hershey Coin Club show to
be held on May 30 and 31. Cutting
the ribbon for the opening of the
Show on Saturday morning at 9
a. m. will be Mr. Samuel F. Hink-le,
president and chairman of the
board of the Hershey Chocolate
Corporation.
Dealers from six different states
and Canda will exhibit their coins
of odd and curious monies of the
world, U. S. Silver coins, U. S. gold
-coins, paper money, foreign money
and Biblical money.
Times set for the show are Satur-day,
May 30, 9 a. m. to 10 p. m.;
Sunday, May 31, 12 noon to 8 p. m
The show is free to the public — chil-dren
must be accompanied by
an adult.
Air Force Secretary To Speak At MHS Commencement
Speaker for the annual com-mencement
exercises of the Milton
Hershey School, to be held Monday,
June 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Her-shey
Community Theatre, will be
the Honorable Eugene M. Zuckert,
Secretary of the Air Force.
Dr. Richard A. Rudisill, Head-master
of the school, will present
the class for graduation, and James
E. Bobb, chairman of the Board
of Managers, will present the di-plomas.
Two members of the
graduation class, George Delany
and James Gillis, will give ad-dresses
of welcome and farewell,
respectively.
Graduation weekend activities
will begin at special exercises Fri-day
afternoon, May 29, during
which time each senior will be pre-sented
with a biography of Milton
S. Hershey and copies of the school
yearbook, The Acropolis. That
evening, the traditional Senior Ban-quet
will be served in the Park
Golf 'Club followed by the prom in
the Starlight Ballroom.
The annual Graduation Worship
Service will be held on Sunday.
morning, May 31 at 9:15 a.m. in
the Community Theatre. Student
speakers will be Barry Varon, John
Henderson and Bruce Elliott. Les-ter
Holstein, Director of Religious
Education, is in charge.
Monday is designated as Class
Day, and will feature a special as-sembly,
during which the members
of the graduating class will pre-sent
a program. Special awards
for individual members of the
class will be announced at this
time. The graduates will be form-ally
welcomed into the alumni as-sociation;
and the ceremony of
transfer of the class mantle of
Memorial Day Service And Parade Scheduled
Commander H. C. Mearig, Group
Commander of the Naval Reserve
Unit in Lancaster, will be the
speaker for the annual Memorial
Day Services to be held at the
Derry Township Court of Honor at
10:30 a. m.
The program, sponsored by the
Post 386 of the American Legion
and Post 3502 of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, will begin with a
four - division parade to start at
west on Chocolate Ave., to Cara-cas
Ave., east on West Caracas to
Valley Rd., north on Valley Rd. to
West Chocolate, east on Chocolate
to Ceylon and then to ,the school
plaza where it will disband.
The parade will halt briefly at
the Derry Twp. War Memorial at
West Chocolate Ave. where mem-bers
of the Hershey Italian Club
will hold a ceremony. Ivan L:
Mease, Parade Marshal, will par-
9:30 a. m. Marchers will form at tiCipate in the ceremonies. Italian
9:15 a. m. on the high school plaza i Club committee members are Sam.
for the parade which will move on uel F. Coletti, Divo DiClemente,
Ceylon Avenue to Chocolate Ave., Frank Leoni and Gene Paioletti.
John H. Mease, Commander of
Post No. 386, will preside over the
observance at the Derry Twp.
Court of Honor.- The Invocation
will be given by the Rev. J. Her-bert
Miller; Scripture Reading by
the Rev. Ira 0. Reed; and the
benediction by the Ven. Kermit L
Lloyd. A vocal solo "America, the
Beautiful" will be rendered by Mr.
Doran E. Whitfield.
Hershey -Gardens ,
John P. Meszaros, director ,of
Horticulture at the Hershey Gat-dens,
has indicated that the rose
bloom will be a little late this year
due to weather conditions. Some of
the earlier rose varieties will be
showing color only on terminal
bloom for Memorial Day. Peak
bloom of the 42.000 rose bushes is
expected to begin June 13 and con-tinue
for several weeks.
In the meantime, 30 new vari-eties
of roses will be planted.
These include Malibu, Morocco,
Swarthmore, Eiffel Tower, Crim-son
Duke and Rose Gaujard. l'he
All - Americans for 1965. Mr. I.in-coln
and Camelot, will take their
places along All - American Ave-nue,
a section designed for the All-
American roses.
In place of the 30,000 tulips whi^h
recently finished bloom, 14,30() an-nuals
will be planted. Among these
are 220 varities from A to Z. A
large number of the annuals are
in color now, but their best show
begins in July.
Complementing the color scheme
of the roses are the trees and
shrubs such as White Birch, Jap-anese
Red Maple, Atlantic Blue
Cedar, Koster Blue Spruce, Var-iegated
Welchi Dogwood, and Weep-ing
Beech.
There are 75 varieties of peonie,,
causing a color climax with their
bloom. Iris add their gay colors
to the towering spikes of eremurus.
Deep rich green grass pathways,
make a magic carpet of conten-ment.
Visitors can enjoy all this beauty
daily from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m. at
no cost.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Samuel F. Hinkle, President
and Chairman of the Board of
the Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion,
has been notified that the
Corporation Employes have
been awarded the Award of
Honor by the National Safety
Council for outstanding safety
performance in the year 1943.
This is the second year in a
row that the Corporation em-ployes
have received the honor.
The Award of Honor is the
highest honor given by the Na-tional
Safety Council and is not
easy to' obtain as not even 10
per cent of the plants enrolled
for Council membership win
awards in any year.
eadership from one student presi-dent
to his successor will complete
the afternoon.
Mr. John Showalter has been ad-visor
to this year's class, and their'
officers have been Robert Swegart,
president; John Henderson, vice
president; William Schwanger, sec-retary;
and Milton Purcell, treas-urer,
Herbert C. "Bud" Mearig,
speaker for the service, has been
a lecturer, toastmaster and mod-erator
for 20 years. The topic of
Mrs. Mearig's talk will be "Our
American Heritage."
Commander Mearig is a gradu-ate
For Community
Commander H. C. Mearig
of Franklin and Marshall
lege and as a naval officer also
attended Princeton and Ohio State.
He had two years of sea duty in
the Pacific, earning seven battle
stars and three commendations in.
eluding one for bravery.
Gel-
WoAttli. u,k excumion.
An information session for any-one
Interested in attending the
World's - Fair will be held on
Thursday, June 11 in the Social
Room West of the Hershey Cone.
mussily Center at 7:30 p. in.
A Bell Telephone representa-tive
will show 50 color slides and
give descriptions of the exhibits
at the Fair. Additional informa-tion
concerning the Community
Center trip on July 9 will also
be given.
ELECTED into membership in the Phi Theta Kappa, the National
Junior College Scholastic Honor Society; were the following; 1st
row, left to right — Vladimir Cini, Carol Cave, Kathleen Geesey;
2nd row — Theodore Ebersole, Frank Tulli, James Cake, Michael
Stauffer and Frank Deaner. The students were elected into mem-bership
by the faculty of the Hershey Junior College for their
outstanding work during the past academic year.
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